greatness

Film

Napoleon's return

Jul 31, 2002 reviewed by Steve Vineberg

In a charming fantasia on how the last years of Napoleon's life might have gone, The Emperor's New Clothes—an adaptation of Simon Leys's novella The Death of Napoleon—features a Bonaparte who plots a daring escape from St. Helena. He plants a double, a sailor named Eugene Lenormand, in his place while he steals back to Paris to reclaim his power.

Living by the Word

Heroic ambition

Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45

Oct 06, 2009 by Paul J. Wadell

I want the best for my students. That’s why I love talking to them about the virtue of magnanimity and its corresponding vice of pusillanimity, a word that is hard to spell and even harder to pronounce, but important to understand. Magnanimous people consistently set their sights high. In everything they do, they aspire to what is best.

Features

Who's great?

Billy Graham and John Paul II
Nov 15, 2003 by Mark A. Noll
Billy Graham and John Paul II are indisputably great men. However much of what they accomplished should be attributed to their own actions and however much is due to other factors, these two must be considered significant actors in 20th-century history.