As we enter Holy week, I am taking stock of my Lenten promises. This is the season that I shine up my servant-heart. I have been practicing humility. At first glance, inventory doesn’t look too...

When I was about six, my father built a small cabin for me in the woods behind our house. My memory of it is as dim as the light inside it; for while it had an open door, it had no windows. I do...

Ray's new botany teacher handed him a river plant and told him to study its leaves, roots, and blossom. Fifteen minutes later, Ray turned in several hasty sketches with a few notes. The...

Admiral Richard Byrd’s Antarctic polar expedition of 1939 and ‘40 had reached Sulzberger Bay—farther than any previous South Pole venture—when its small wooden ship, the U.S.S. Bear, became...