Articles

Where Do You Live?

Ravi Zacharias,

Excerpted and adapted from a chapter of the forthcoming book Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias, Word Publishing. One of the most celebrated opportunities ever accorded to a member of our family took place when Queen Elizabeth and...

Through Muddy Lenses

I strummed my guitar beside the breezy shoreline, watching the sunset wash into the sea, when a man sat down beside me at the picnic table. He quietly listened to the music. His brown hair was disheveled and his clothes tattered. He...

The Road Home

Danielle DuRant,

It was inevitable, I guess. I returned from Christmas break and headed out the door for my familiar eight mile run down the hilly, gravel road. But it had been paved. Suddenly, everything had changed. The quiet stretch of road only days...

Facing God with Faces of Falsehood

Danielle DuRant,

If, like truth, the lie had but one face, we would be on better terms. For we would accept as certain the opposite of what the liar would say. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field." Michel de...

Culture, Grace, and Glory

Not long ago I reread C.S. Lewis’s classic, The Chronicles of Narnia, which traces the adventures of several young children who enter a mysterious other-world filled with evil witches, talking animals and unusual lands. By the time I...

Letters of Despair - Words of Hope

Ravi Zacharias,

These have been sad days in our city. Atlanta has endured a series of heart-wrenching tragedies that prompted the mayor to ask its citizens to pray for a restoration of civility. “There is only so much civic authority can do,” he added.

Straight Truth in Strange Times

Danielle DuRant,

In the final cut of The Moody Blues’ new release, Strange Times, they sing: We, each of us are fineFor we have all heard the word, But grouped togetherBabel’s triumph stampedes, The thoughtless herd, Nothing changes. In their first...

In Green Pastures

Danielle DuRant,

Tonight I feel overwhelmed by what I have witnessed day after day through the constant stream of noise and words—hushed voices of refugees, the dazed recollections of children in the path of violence. And so I have turned off the...

Shepherding a Soul-Less Culture

Ravi Zacharias,

Milton! thou shouldest be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...

Recapturing a Vision of Covenant for Our Time

Amy Orr-Ewing,

Today I attended the funeral of a friend from my Oxford University days. His life was cut short by a tragic accident abroad. He was in the prime of life, having achieved excellent results at Oxford, and after working for two years for a top...