The Ripley organization highlights the story of the unusual creature, the Nanomia Cara. It is a jellyfish, and it lives in a huge cluster with other jellyfish. Some in the colony catch the food, others digest the food for the rest, others provide propulsion and still others lay eggs. They are interdependent. So is the church. Everyone...

In an early Peanuts comic strip, Charlie Brown and Lucy are having a conversation. Lucy asks, "What are you doing for your dad on Father's Day?" Charlie replies, "First, I'm going to get him to take me to the park to play on the swings. Then we'll go to the zoo and from there to the ball game. By the end of the day, he'll know...

William Howard Taft entered the White House with the approval of the retiring president, Theodore Roosevelt. They had a falling out, and Roosevelt ran against his former protegee in the next election. Three candidates competed for the vote: Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft. Wilson won with...

In the cartoon The Family Circus, the little boy in the family was sending a Christmas card to his grandmother. He said, "I know Grandmother likes only religious cards, so I'm sending her this one with St. Nick on it." Many of us laugh at that, but in a practical sense, we are the same as that little boy. For we take great pains...

Kierkegaard told a parable about a prince who fell in love with a peasant maid. He had noticed her passing by on the street and was instantly infatuated. He knew that if he went to her as the prince and told of his love, she would certainly accept. That would be the loyal thing to do. But he wanted her to have a genuine...

In the Peanuts comic strip, one of the little girls says that Christmas is a time for kindness and joy, and a time when we forgive one another. Charlie Brown responds by saying, "Why just at Christmas? Why can't we be kind and forgiving all through the year?" She looks at Charlie Brown and says, "What are you...

In C. S. Lewis' book, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, he takes us to the land of Narnia. When Narnia is living under the authority of the witch, it is "always winter, but never Christmas." Can you imagine how discouraging that would be to a child? Still, there are people today who are living in a winter, and Christmas...

The town of Greeneville, TN, is characterized for the spelling of Greene after the revolutionary war hero Nathaniel Greene. Local citizens are very careful to include the "E" in his honor. Greene was one of Washington's noblest and most effective generals. What is not widely known, according to the Ripley people, is that...

A lady was visiting an art museum when she turned to a curator and pointed at the wall. "I suppose you call this hideous looking thing modern art." "No," he replied. "We call it a mirror." What do we see when we look at ourselves. Do we think too highly of ourselves or too lowly? With God's help we can see ourselves as we are...

It happened at the battle of Mill Springs in South Central Kentucky. It seems the battle was raging in early morning on a fog-shrouded ridge. The two armies were involved in hand-to-hand combat and the battle lines had broken in several places. Two generals met each other on the fog-shrouded hill. They talked for several...