God Is Greater

In her book Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard marvels at the nonchalant way in which most Christians come the church.  We come to carpeted and comfortable sanctuaries filled with padded pews.  Everything is orderly and neat, tied down, and respectable.  Yet, says Dillard, if we really know much about the Bible and what […]

Several years ago a hydroelectric dam was to be built across a valley in New England.  The people in a small town in the valley were to be relocated because the town itself would be submierged when the dam was finished.  during the time between the decision to build the dam and its completion, the […]

Leonard Sweet tells a story about a certain Native American tribe that had a unique way of training young braves. On the night of a boy’s thirteenth birthday, he was led out into the wilderness to spend the night alone. Most young braves, at this time in their lives, had never been away from the […]

In 1951 Sam Turner, a 29 year old serving an 8-year prison term near Atlanta, Georgia, saw an opportunity and took it.  Working on a road gang, Sam notice a security lapse that gave him the opportunity to “just walk away”— and he did.  It took 46 years, but authorities finally caught up with Sam. […]

 “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”  “I usually take a two-hour nap, from one o’clock to four.”  “You give a hundred percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough, in the second half you give what’s left.”  “You can observe a lot by watching.”  “A nickel […]

I’ve been watching the weeds replace my grass in the front yard at my home.  No matter what I do, I can’t seem to root up and do away with the weeds.   Discovered that some biblical scholars believe that the mustard plant Jesus made reference to in the scripture might be what botanists call […]