Improving Our Time

Making her way over countless stark mile Through empty black sea with light in her smile Spinning and soaring. Her eager endeavor— To...

Below the earth’s relatively calm surface lies an entirely different world. The temperature here is many times that of the surface and...

Smoke long ago swept clear of this grass Drew back in slow shame from covered morass. Surly ribbon bands did curtain this stage Where...

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be,...

In wood I’ve created great plans brought to pass, Uncovered great beauty from sundry vague mass. But looking back now I’d be foolish to...

Good deeds and faith spent with back squarely bent: Our tools for the making, of Heaven are sent. Of grander affairs our plans they have...

In my family, we enjoy a meal of symbolic foods to remember the history of the Passover, while focusing on the Last Supper. It gives us a...

On Sunday, July 20, 1969, two men from Earth rested upon the surface of another world. One, a technically minded, strait-laced man of...

I remember the moment I first had the thought, while riding home in the back of a minivan, returning from church with my family. It was a rather ordinary time; an unoccupied teenager scanning out the window at the passing scenery. I thought for the first time how interesting it was that I could see through the glass, on to the trees and grass beyond. The glass was hard as rock, indeed made from rock. It ably directed the strong currents of air around the car, with no hint of

The movie is a lot better than the book. Really. Warning: Though not overtly glamorized, Paramount Pictures' Forrest Gump does contain...

"What is life?" asks George Harrison. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans," sings John Lennon. I wonder if...

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a train of grand destination. Some disembarked before leaving the station. All others disembarked...