Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich and poor together!

At the Thanksgiving table few of us are likely to express thankfulness for hard work -- but thats what Ecclesiastes recommends. Heres wisdom from Chapter 5: What I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun.

Waiting amid a long twilight struggle.

Many baby boomers look at cultural wreckage and see nothingnothing

My children and millions of others have enjoyed the Wheres Waldo? series of books by English illustrator Martin Handford. Theyre even popular in other countries where Waldo has other names: Charlie in France, Jonas in Lithuania, Holger in Denmark.

The Center for the American Experiment is my favorite think-tank name. I like it because America really has been an experiment: Could we become a melting pot, with many becoming one?

We can learn from the great exiles legacy as we face an uncertain future

A good education equation needs elements that are often left out

Evangelicals should start voting with clear eyes to the future.

I often edit better and occasionally think better by keeping a particular person in mind.

This is no time to give up on politics.

When leaders of City Church in San Francisco recently decided to offer membership to same-sex marriage partners, investment banker Liza Hing says a lot of people in the church were totally blindsided.

Fifty years ago the two greatest songs of all time (so the magazine Rolling Stone declared in 2004) emerged just one month apart. The Rolling Stones I Cant Get No Satisfaction (#2) came out in June 1965. Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone (#1) emerged in July.

Unlikely love languages may be lurking in your family circle

How to face the overwhelming but inevitable end of life?

Does Christian perseverance pay off? In a fallen world, often not. Sometimes the grace is in the running of the race, not the outcome. But sometimes

Pray for the strength to persevere in loving our neighbors in the face of acts of war.

The Westerners who join the Islamic State have a precedent in recent history.

Where can we find true contentment?

You stirred up a hornets nest with this one, one WORLD reader wrote: You should have left this alone. Another sympathetically asked, Why even delve into a topic that is so divisive?