Editorials

Growing up to know God

Don't we always want to be learning and growing? And if our efforts are bringing us closer to God, then our lives will have real meaning and direction.

Staying on course

Just as a mariner uses a compass to direct his course, so we can look to God's unchanging law to give us direction and guidance.

Education—future perfect

If we think education is vital to solving world problems, maybe we need to give more attention to the moral and spiritual basis that makes education work.

"The music of freedom"

Turn on the radio, scan the dial, and you can hear everything from hard rock to progressive jazz to the symphonies of Beethoven. Turn to God and there's a special kind of music that fills the heart and liberates the spirit.
Any journey we take means we leave old landmarks and seek new horizons.

Single-hearted devotion

If you were to conceive of some powerful spiritual breakthrough in your life—some event that would reorient your life profoundly toward God—how do you think such an event would happen?

What death does not do

If we're facing grief, well-worn answers can seem too familiar. But out of persisting prayer can come quite new convictions about eternal life.
Is goodness something weak or strong? When its source is God, there's nothing more powerful.

To pray ... and mean it!

We may be too familiar with the word prayer—and not familiar enough with the actual act of praying. It can be quite a discovery!
We all long to communicate more clearly with others the truths we hold so dear. When we see we all have a common heritage of good, we'll find it easier.

Divine justice

Justice isn't something that is simply dispensed skillfully or unskillfully by humans. Ultimately, we find true justice is a vital, never-broken link between us and God.
True health doesn't depend so much on meticulous efforts to regulate calories as on the Christly qualities we exercise each day.