Live long enough and we’re bound to see evil at work, around us, and in us. But the true nature of evil generates debate, even in scientific circles. And our perspective has big implications.
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Author: Rick Gamble
Rick Gamble is minister at "Followers of Christ," a nondenominational gathering near the core of the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He also teaches Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His interests include documentary work, which has taken him to seven countries in Africa, long-distance running, and writing.
“Light” Infantry
Call it the art of war.
No, not military strategy but the simple creativity of soldiers who used a lull in the fighting and whatever was at hand to preserve their sanity and remind themselves there was still beauty in this world. One of the best examples is in the Crkva Ruzica (Rose Church) in Belgrade, Serbia, part of the former Yugoslavia.
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Coup de Grace
Amazing Grace is a Christmas carol. And if you’ve ever wondered what’s so amazing about grace in the first place, this story will help.
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Christmas Packaging
Let’s take the wraps off the tradition of concealing presents under decorative packaging and see if there isn’t a spiritual gift inside.
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Para-Sight: Seeing Spiritual Danger for What It Is
Parasites are control freaks.
Not only do they live off other creatures, they make them do astonishing things that are usually out of character. An example is a Costa Rican parasitic wasp that terrorizes spiders. A female wasp paralyzes a victim and lays her eggs on the spider’s abdomen. When they hatch, the baby wasps feed on the blood of their host while the spider continues on like nothing’s wrong.
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Watch (Your) Expectations in Church
Big churches have always been around, including Charles Spurgeon’s Baptist Metropolitan Tabernacle in London which drew 5,000 weekly in the 1800s, as did the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles where radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson preached. But size isn’t the issue.
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Showing God Some Not-So-Common Courtesy
Requests and gratitude. They form a big part of our prayers and relationship with God. But we can learn a lot by exploring the origin of “please” and “thank you.”
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Generating Controversy
Ronaldo da Silva is one of several Brazilian prison inmates generating excitement and debate in an innovative, eye-brow-raising community service program. By riding stationary bikes hooked up to car batteries and a converter needed to power streetlights, the convicts help light their town.
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Two Belgian architects have a scheme to make people think differently about religion, but you can see right through their intentions — their church is transparent.
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“Current” Research
The world will soon be radically altered by astonishing new batteries, and the atmosphere in the scientific community is, well, electric!
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The Chicken Church
Critics of the Chicken Church say its architect inadvertently laid an egg. A photographer had noticed that, from just the right spot, its highest windows resemble eyes, and some roofing tiles have the look of wings and a beak.
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These Jewellery Cases Hold a Surprise
Using a lowly insect favored as bait by trout fisherman, Hubert Duprat is reeling in a high-class clientele who’ve fallen for his venture, hook, line…
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“Tag” Lines
Game on! Brian Dennehy plays tag with nine of his friends. But he’s no kid, and the game has been going for 23 years! What…
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Getting It In the Neck
Pop a cork and let’s toast the lowly wine stopper. Made from the bark of an oak found in southwest Europe and northwest Africa, cork is prized for it’s elasticity, buoyancy, and ability to form a near-perfect, impermeable seal.
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On the Horns of a Dilemma
It was the very picture of stupidity. Last week in a South African game reserve, 24-year-old Chantal Beyer and her boyfriend were with several other young people when guide Alex Richter stopped their vehicle and had everyone get out for a photo op with two white rhinos.
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