Ervin White

Have you ever met an angry Christian? You may have come across Christians who love to grumble, complain, or even speak harshly about other people. Maybe you've even been that person at times in your own life. If we're not careful, we can easily become self-righteous within Christianity. After all, we know the truth and others may not. You might see how tempting it can be to look down upon other people, demean them, or consider them as worse off than ourselves. But this misses...

Lap after lap, Katie Ledecky was in a familiar spot during the 1500-meter freestyle race at the 2024 Paris Olympics. For some fifteen minutes, she was far ahead of the rest of the swimmers and alone in her thoughts. What was Ledecky thinking about during the long race? In an interview conducted immediately following the gold medal winning performance in which she set a new Olympic record, Ledecky said she was thinking about her training partners and saying their name in her head. ...

Doctor Doolittle, the fictional doctor who converses with animals, has delighted fans through books, movies, and plays. However, few people know that author Hugh Lofting first wrote the Doolittle tales to his children from the ghastly trenches of World War I. He later said that the war too awful to recount in his letters -- so he wrote and illustrated stories instead. These whimsical, joy-filled tales were Lofting's way of pushing back against the war's horror. It's inspiring to see a...