Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.