Almost 100 years ago, a young missionary in Ecuador named Raymond Edman staggered in the jungle, desperately ill. «He be dead by morning,» the doctor said, and his wife dyed her wedding dress black, readying it for the funeral which, in the tropics, [...]

In the Old Testament, Habakkuk the prophet struggled and he said, «O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear me»? And Job wrestled with it. Job said, «Oh, that I had one to hear me! Oh, that the Almighty would answer me». And David said [...]

The daughter of an atheist once told a friend that she had been raised without any religion. «I don’t believe in God, » she said. And then a little wistfully she added, «But the other day I came across an old German book that contained a prayer, and [...]

«Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you». These three instructions, ask, seek, and knock, are in the imperative mood. Now, I’m an old English major, so that means something to me, but let me [...]