life on planet earth from ecclesiastes 1

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

Abraham Lincoln’s sharp wit often surfaced, even in serious moments. At the funeral of a talented but overly vain Army General during the Civil War, Lincoln observed the large crowd that had gathered....

Take the great American writer Ernest Hemingway, for example. Born in 1899, he was the epitome of the twentieth-century man. At age 25, he sipped champagne in Paris, and later had well-publicized game...

Every five hundred years, give or take a decade or two, Western culture, along with those parts of the world that have been colonized or colonialized by it, goes through a time of enormous upheaval, a...

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

There are two tragedies in lie. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.