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Fighting An Unwanted Fight

On the morning of April 19, 1775, John Parker was lying in bed. He didn’t have long to live…but that fact had nothing to do with the 700 British soldiers…

Destruction In a Matter of Seconds

In 1959, as the world was embracing commercial air travel, Canada was set to unveil her latest offering to the world: Ottawa International Airport. Originally known as Uplands, the newly…

C. S. Lewis on Courage

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or…

Charles Spurgeon on Souls

“Consider how precious a soul must be, when both God and the Devil are after it.”

Douglas John Hall on God’s Problem

“God’s problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God’s problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life.”

Neil Postman on the Limitations of Science

“In the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question,…