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What is the true corona? What corona prevails when all is said and done? La corona de la vida—the crown of life—given by the risen Savior

What are the giants that threaten the Christian Church today? Atheism? Secularism? Materialism? Self-indulgence? Ego? Immorality? Lethargy and Apathy?...

Tucked away in the corner of a Chick-fil-A I visited recently was a not-so-typical accessory of a fast-food restaurant. On the way to the kids’ play area; a...

A Santa Fe High School student commented, “It's been happening everywhere. I always felt eventually it would happen here, too.” The inevitability of hurt a...

Bill Hybels’ sudden resignation from Willow Creek Church and the Willow Creek Association has shaken the evangelical community and has provided yet another r...

How do you make sense of the Florida bridge collapse? Five of the victims just happened to be in vehicles under the 950-ton structure when it gave way. In ...

This week, I met a remarkable person. She and her husband have two beautiful children. Their oldest, a daughter, has Rett Syndrome. It’s a rare non-inheri...

When heartbreak’s heavy paws are pushing on your chest, when its foul breath is choking life out of you, and when its sharp claws are threatening to tear you...

My goal is not to depress you or to force you to endure an insufferable journey through dark and dismal events. By revisiting the deep and muck-filled trenc...

Someone asked me recently how I could write about grief and loss in a way that seemed like I really “got it.” The question made me realize that I should pro...

Matt Lauer. Garrison Keillor. Add them to the growing list of men who have been hurtful, domineering, abusive, and careless toward women. Add them to the ...

You never know who might be sitting next to you. You never know what they might have experienced. As I dined in a restaurant, I happened to engage in cordi...

Doug sat down to talk with me when I was only twenty-six years old and one month out of seminary. He just retired from his job in the school district. That...

On one of my morning running routes, a big “do not enter” sign has been placed on a sidewalk to prevent foot traffic from venturing into a construction zone....

The elephants are no longer marching. The jugglers are no longer juggling. The trapeze artists have stopped their trapezing. Even the ringmaster has hung ...

If you watched the movie “The Founder,” you saw an ambitious and egotistical man take credit for and earn profit from something he did not invent. The movie...

I stayed at a new Home2 Suites hotel the other day. It’s a fairly new hotel brand in the Hilton family of hotels. Hilton Worldwide had not launched a new b...

Berkeley, Illinois is the home of the World Dryer Corporation. The company makes those handy hand dryers you’re forced to use in restrooms when you really w...

One of the best movies I’ve ever seen is the newly released “Hidden Figures.” It is the story of brilliant NASA mathematicians laboring to help put a human ...

The Post-Communion Canticles found in the Lutheran Service Book reflect not only the heart of God, the central focus of the Scriptures, and the core teaching...