Editorials

Around the turn of the century a New York newspaper carried the following item.

The truth about pain

It's so important to tell the truth about pain.

Help for fathers today

Each photograph shows a father with his children or grandchildren.
There is hardly an area of life today where we don't find observers—watchers of politics, of the economy, of social trends, of the entertainment industry.

The sufficiency of God's grace

It's not unusual for people to feel inspired and encouraged when they see someone—especially someone in extraordinary circumstances—achieving beyond the generally accepted limits of human capacity and, in addition, doing it with grace and joy.

Charity in the church

The tendency to confront one another—in battlefields and duels and court contests—is just about as old as humankind.

Weapons of peace

In what can appear to be an increasingly violent world, people look for increasingly powerful weapons with which to defend themselves.
Put yourself in Nicodemus's position.
This past summer brought periods of extreme heat to much of the midwestern United States and to many parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

No scars

Many people who have suffered from sexual abuse in their early years have found it sometimes challenging to develop healthy relationships.
A Friend recently told me that he had gone through a particularly difficult bout with pain.
Deep within our hearts—even if we can't put it into words, even if it has seemed far from prevalent in our lives up to this point—every one of us can know what real love is, and how it ought to be expressed.