When we built Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), it was the largest in the world. As is common on such projects, there were the inevitable accidents and some workmen lost their lives. When the dam was complete, they put a plaque into the wall. On it they inscribed the names of the...

The first law of Thermodynamics says that no mass or energy is ever destroyed, that it merely changes form. When a piece of wood is burned, it is not gone. Some of it becomes heat; some deteriorates into the ashes. But it is not destroyed - it just changes. When a lake dries up,...

In London's Westminster Abbey, many great men and women are buried in the floor of the church. Visitors walk over their tombs without hesitation...all but one. There is one tomb that no one walks over. Even the Queen at her Coronation walked around it. It is the tomb of Britain's...

In the Middleton's comic strip by Dunagin and Summers, little Wendie is getting ready to pray. Her mother says, "Time for prayers Wendie." Wendie declares, "I'm going to pray for my friends." Her mother responds by reminding her daughter, "We're also to pray for people...

Recently the Associated Press carried a story of a Saudi American man named Saleh-al-Sayeri, who has been married 58 times. He has not broken any laws in his culture, which allows divorce and allows a man to be married to four women at the same time, but even in his homeland...

Have you seen some of those stories about children's definitions of love? Some favorites include the insight of five-year old Karl who said, "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other." Mary Ann, age four observes, ...

Every British monarch is crowned sitting in the Coronation Chair. It is not very impressive. The paint is peeling, showing the marks of earlier paint. The initials of schoolboys are carved on it. But beneath it is the Stone of Scone over which Scottish kings were crowned . . . and legend says ...

Those who speak up for Jesus are often labeled as annoyances. Some of that may be unavoidable. Herb Caen once said, "The problem with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around." Caen's comment might well be an overstatement, but all who...

For many years Sam Rayburn was a Congressman from Texas and long time speaker of the House of Representatives. A congressional office building is named for him. He was widely respected for his honesty. He once said, "I don't remember what I say. I don't have to." What a...

Jesus did not liken the kingdom of God to a diamond, but to a pearl. Of all precious stones, the pearl has the humblest origin. It begins with a wound and is created out of God's resources for healing the wound. So the kingdom begins with a wound, the wound in the body of...