Imagine entering a room and finding a beautifully wrapped present on a table. Attached to the present is a label that reads: “This present is for you but don’t open it now . . . wait.” An instruction like this...
Imagine a snowy evening in one of the old small towns of Austria, eleven miles north of Salzburg—in a little village called Oberndorf. The year is 1818. A schoolmaster and a priest are quickly rehearsing for Midnight Mass. Father Joseph...
When I was a pastor at a Quaker meeting in Muncie, Indiana, I met every Thursday with the preschoolers attending our school. One Thursday before Thanksgiving, I asked them if they knew what holiday was coming up. I thought they...
Celebrate All Saints’ Day by listening to selections from Paraclete Press poets Bonnie Thurston, Susan Miller, Kathleen O’Toole, and Scott Cairns, inspired by the lives of holy men and women through the ages, read by members of Elements Theatre Company....
From her earliest years, Corrie ten Boom cared for the elderly, and when she grew old, she allowed others to care for her. It’s just what Christians did. It’s what they must continue to do in our youth-obsessed, utilitarian culture...
Fra Angelico (c. 1390-1455) may have been one of the greatest evangelists of the late middle ages. But he proclaimed the Gospel with his art, not with words. “The best evangelical strategy,” says Bishop Robert Barron, “is one that moves...
“If they, why not I?—If these men and women could become saints, why cannot I with the help of him who is all-powerful?” —St. Augustine Holiness for all. Saints intrigue us. We recognize something special about them that seems to...
Go out to the whole world; proclaim the gospel to all creation.—Mark 16:15 No believer in Christ . . . can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples. —Pope John Paul II, The Mission of the Redeemer,...
From the Introduction to Billy Graham: An Ordinary Man and His Extraordinary God by Lon Allison. I’m a reluctant witness when it comes to writing about Billy Graham. I am privileged to know him and to have visited with him...
