"Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ." [1 Corinthians 11:1]No words. Just music and moving. During a twenty-four-hour Zumba marathon amid the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of people fr...  Read More

"What is mankind that you are mindful of them?" [Psalm 8:4] In the early twentieth century, Italian poet F.T. Marinetti launched Futurism, an artistic movement that rejected the past, scoffed at tradi...  Read More

"If he comes to you, welcome him."  [Colossians 4:10] Amos was an overbearing extrovert, and Danny was a loner wracked with self-doubt. Somehow these eccentric geniuses became best friends. They spent...  Read More

"Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." [Exodus 4:12] Jen was born without legs and abandoned at the hospital. Yet she says being put up for adoption was a blessing. "I am here...  Read More

"Pray continually." [1 Thessalonians 5:17] Harriet Tubman couldn't read or write. As an adolescent, she suffered a head injury at the hands of a cruel slave master. That injury caused her to have seiz...  Read More

"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you." [Isaiah 26:3] A pirouette is a graceful spin that's executed by ballerinas and contemporary dancers alike. ...  Read More

"Be strong and very courageous." [Joshua 1:7] During our tour of an aircraft carrier, a jet fighter pilot explained that planes need a 56-kilometer-per-hour wind to take off on such a short runway. To...  Read More

"When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple." Acts 9:26 In an article on mentoring, Hannah Schell explains ...  Read More

"The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice." [Proverbs 12:15] When the roof of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral caught fire in April, 2019, its ancient wood beams and lead sheetin...  Read More

"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." [Romans 12:2] In a small farming community, news travels fast. Several years after the bank sold the far...  Read More

"Many waters cannot quench love."  Song of Songs 8:7 Two octogenarians, one from Germany and the other from Denmark, were an unlikely couple. They had each enjoyed sixty years of marriage before being...  Read More

"God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them." (Hebrews 6:10) When we think of historic, trailblazing missio...  Read More