Author: Rubel Shelly

Trash-talk television, celebrity adulteries, drug-busted-and-still playing athletes, the abolition of public moral codes – all have combined to make us think we don’t have to be accountable for our behaviors. Until we reject this lie and quit whining, our culture will continue to get worse.

A story from Abraham Lincoln’s days as a lawyer says that Lincoln was hired to sue a fellow over a debt that totaled $2.50. He didn’t want to do it. But his client insisted “principle” was at stake more than money. The two men had been friends, but the delinquent debt had changed things. Now they would be adversaries over a paltry sum of money.

The impression one can get from lots of the pop psychology being marketed these days is that guilt is the most inappropriate of human sentiments. We are who we are, and we do what we do. Nobody should feel guilty about anything. Feeling guilty about anything is bad. It can only lead to negative results. That simply isn’t true.

It’s sometimes a tough call — when to keep a thing to yourself or when to disclose it. The issue isn’t revealing it to God,…

V.R. Roskam of Wheaton, Illinois, visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, three years ago. He and his wife, Martha, were browsing at a souvenir stand.…

Some days it’s hard to get out of bed — much less laugh. But haven’t you noticed how much better a day goes when laughter…

A five-year-old girl in Patterson, Georgia, has a rare abnormality. Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) is so rare that a clinic specializing in…

In whatever countries of the world we live, Christians hold dual citizenship. We may be citizens of first-century Rome, eighteenth-century England, or twenty-first century America.…