The Battle for Peace

The Battle for Peace

“Peace.” In the New King James Version of the Bible, that word appears in nearly 400 distinct verses. It’s a topic God inspired the writers of the Bible to focus heavily on, perhaps because it is a subject so integral to the human condition. Ever since the first man...
Breaking Through Our Walls

Breaking Through Our Walls

Wolfgang Engels was a man on the wrong side of a wall. Conscripted into the East German army, nineteen-year-old Wolfgang Engels found himself tasked with placing barbed wire alongside the infamous Berlin wall as a deterrent to all those who might be considering a...
If I Just Had…

If I Just Had…

“Tomorrow” is a strange concept. No matter how close you come to it, you’ll never actually reach it—because once that clock ticks over to midnight, what was once tomorrow becomes today, and tomorrow takes a 24-hour step away from you. It’s an unattainable goal, always...
A Spiritual Stockholm

A Spiritual Stockholm

August 23, 1973 was a normal day at work for employees of Stockholm, Sweden’s Kreditbanken—normal, at least, until Jan-Erik Olsson entered the bank with a gun. For six days, he and his friend Clark Olofsson held four employees of the bank hostage while making the...
Learning to Do Good

Learning to Do Good

After some 6,000 years of human history, I think we should all be able to agree: Humanity has no idea what it’s doing. There are some who would argue that point, though. And understandably—just look at all we’ve accomplished in six short millennia! We’ve harnessed the...