What drives the Literati – the lovers of what is commonly identified as Great Literature – absolutely crazy?   It’s the fact that the...

Most people have encountered, at one time or another, an inspirational piece called Footprints in the Sand.    It describes a man who...

In 1982, Chuck Colson brought a team of Prison Fellowship workers to the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.   There they led a...

Sports attendance, sports betting, and sports talk represent one of the most dominant realities on the American scene.    It’s all sports...

My mom, who stepped into the next world seven years ago at the age of 92, was somewhat eccentric.   She had a lifelong love affair with...

His real name was Jean-François Gravelet.   But shortly after he launched his career in the 1840s as Europe’s greatest “funambulist” or...

For multitudes of individuals and organizations, the holidays have become the season of compassion.   But how do we help without hurting?...

Public speaking freaks a lot of people out.   Jerry Seinfeld famously noted, “According to most studies, people's number one fear is...

If you visit the website of Occidental Petroleum (now known as Oxy), there’s no mention of Armand Hammer in the official history of the...

When author and sociologist Tony Campolo was little, walking to school by himself was not a wise option.   Who knew what might happen to...

What happens when children talk to God?    If the missives found in Children’s Letters to God (Workman Publishing, 1966) are any...

The Hasbro toy company hoped to make a new product splash at the 1964 New York Toy Fair.   What they ended up doing was introducing an...

For ten long years, the greatest hero of ancient Greek literature tries to find his way home.   Odysseus has led the Greeks to victory in...

In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev agonized for days over the puzzle of how to arrange the known elements.   Sleepiness finally...

Pastors sometimes get surprising questions.   In his book The Good and Beautiful God, James Bryan Smith recounts a story he heard from...

On this Election Day in the United States, it’s clear that no matter who receives the most votes, the path ahead of us is going to be...

What’s in a name?   More than 150 years ago, when European surveyors were attempting to map the primary geological features on...

August 14, 2003, was the night that the lights went out in New York City.   A blackout shut down the power grid in eight states, mostly...

The British press once declared him to be “the wickedest man in the world.”   After all, he crossed every line, broke every rule,...

Five hundred and seven years ago, on the day we’ve come to know as Halloween, Martin Luther changed the course of history.   The German...