I have found that, aside from Scripture, nothing I read or hear strengthens my heart like the testimony of someone who has gone before me. Whether it is the biography of a great hero of the faith, or simply a college senior’s testimony that encourages me that school is not going to kill me, there is something uniquely comforting in knowing that someone else has walked this road before, and has been the better for it. There is encouragement in fellowship, even if the fellowship is over dozens or even hundreds of years.

In response to the growing number of children growing up with separated or divorced parents, a lawmaker in Utah is hoping to reduce divorce rates in his state through legislation. 

With the Winter Olympics taking place in Sochi the past two weeks, it’s a good time to reflect on the fact that some of the world’s best novelists come from Russia. As my friends and I watched the opening ceremony we cheered at the reference to Dostoyevsky and melted over the ballet reenactment from Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Because whatever else you want to say about Mother Russia, her writers are fantastic.

The Church of England released new guidelines last week that forbid priests from blessing same-sex weddings, or marrying same-sex couples.

Just a week after a Texas man won his fight to have his pregnant wife removed from life support, a Canadian man is hoping doctors can keep his wife alive long enough to give birth to their son.

Friends and family are rallying around Dylan Benson of Victoria, B.C. as he anticipates his baby’s birth and mourns his high school sweetheart’s death. 

Before now, this series focused primarily on Christian classics. But I’m going to interrupt our regularly scheduled program for some pre-Christian classics that I think believers should take time to read.

When a brain tumor robbed Dorothy Holm of  her ability to speak, she began filling index cards from edge to edge with seemingly random sequences of letters before she died in 1996. Her grandchildren thought she might be writing in code, but couldn’t decipher it.