I once heard Keith Miller describe his own experience with this difficult fifth step (the AA's fifth step). Miller, a Protestant, called a Catholic priest who lived five hundred miles away and asked, "Would you hear my confession?" He made a long list of his character...
I told of my own bemusement in the early seventies when the redoubtable Moody Bible Institute, located just four blocks down the street from our church, was banning all beards, mustaches, and hair below the ears of male students-though each day students filed past a...
Mary was not a leprosy patient. Rather, she worked as a medical resident at Brand's leprosy hospital in India. One day she went on a picnic outing in a station wagon driven by a young student out to demonstrate his bravery. After following a poky school bus for...
It took the writings of a Japanese novelist named Shusaku Endo to impress on me that the phenomenon of reversal lay at the very heart of Jesus' mission.In a country where the church comprises less than one percent of the population, Endo was raised by a devout...
The animal fable Watership Down tells of a colony of wild rabbits uprooted from their homes by a construction project. As they wander, they come across a new breed of rabbits huge and beautiful, with sleek, shiny hair and perfect claws and teeth. How do you live so...