Giving up something fattening gets a lot of attention during Lent, but prayer is an important part of this season, too. Along with fasting and almsgiving, prayer is considered one […]

Have you ever wondered why Jesus needed to be tempted in the wilderness? Theologians have debated this for a long time. Some maintain that Jesus, as a representative human, had […]

You’ve been attending Bible studies for years. Faithfully go through your morning devotionals. Sign up for the yearly mission trip. And you may wonder, “When will this all come together? […]

Ah, Ash Wednesday – the beginning of Lent, the day we make promises to give something up, the night the preacher applies smudgy ashes on our foreheads to remind us […]

On this day in 1896, the Olympic Games were reinstituted after a 1500 year hiatus. Held in Greece, the birthplace of the Olympics, King George I welcomed 60,000 spectators and […]

On this day in 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 from Cape Canaveral, its primary mission to gather information on the planet Jupiter. Carried on a three-stage Atlas-Centaur rocket, the nine-foot […]

On this day in 1790, Congress authorized the first official U.S. census. Five months later, under the authority of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, 17 federal marshals, aided by 200 […]

On this day in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, an island off the northwestern coast of Italy. Exiled there in May 1814, the French emperor was permitted to retain […]

The bowl rested on a small table near the altar. Inside, coiled like little snakes, were white rubber bracelets imprinted with blue letters: WWJU The “U” threw me for a […]

The other day, in the wee hours of the morning, a spring storm blew in with the fury of a toddler whose favorite toy had been taken away. We woke up […]