Have you ever laughed at God? Your first instinct might be to reply, “Of course not!” Perhaps you haven’t chuckled out loud, but have you dismissed certain claims of Scripture as being ridiculous or impossible?

Several famous people narrowly missed boarding the Titanic. One of them was John Raleigh Mott. He was an influential evangelist and YMCA official who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946. He and a colleague were offered free passage on the Titanic by a White Star Line official interested in their work, but they declined and instead took a humbler liner named Lapland.

The Library of Parliament in Canada is the only part of the building that survived the great fire of 1916 – and that dates back to the Victorian Era. The library is a very striking room—a great open rotunda with galleries spanning the circumference. Rising in the centre of the library, in the place of absolute pre-eminence, is a towering statue of Queen Victoria.

In 1897, Adolph S. Ochs, the owner of the New York Times, adopted for his paper the motto, “All the news that’s fit to print”. It was a declaration of his intention to maintain high standards of journalism, as well as to hold to good taste and integrity in the advertising he would permit in the paper. The motto still appears on the paper’s masthead.

We live in a rapidly changing world. Technology is constantly advancing. Political leadership is continually changing hands. Cultural trends are always in flux. Even our physical bodies change.