On the wall of what my grandmother called the "sitting room" of her antebellum home in South Carolina, was a constellation of family portraits—old pictures of my uncles and aunts, my cousins, grandparents and great-grandparents, a genealogy in photographs. In the very middle of the cluster, in the place of honor, was the portrait of someone I did not recognize. It was a sepia-toned, Civil War-era ...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a romantic comedy about culture, family, and acceptance. Nia Vardalos plays Toula Portokalos, the awkward middle child of a proud Greek family. Her father, Gus (Michael Constantine), often embarrasses her because he always lectures people on Greek history. "Give me a word," he says, "any word, and I'll show you how the root of that word is Greek." Toula has ambitions to ...

On January 12, 2002, the [Tampa Bay Buccaneers] had suffered a crushing 31-9 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the playoffs. Two days later, [head coach Tony] Dungy was fired.…He was now the former head coach of an NFL team.

"At that time in my life, it was hard to remember God's promise from Romans 8:28," Dungy says, "that all things work together for good to those who love Him. But I also ...

I inherited an old trunk that sat in my grandma's basement. It had belonged to the generation before, who had used it to bring their possessions across the sea from Sweden. It sits in my dining room. It smells a little musty, but I treasure it as a link to my heritage.

I was thrilled to receive the trunk, but even happier when I opened it and saw my bonus surprise. The bottom was lined with pages of ...

2006 was a year of surprises for Sylvester Stallone. First, he surprised the entertainment world by resurrecting his iconic movie hero, Rocky Balboa, for one last film. Then, while promoting the film, Stallone shocked Christian fans with the revelation that his faith in Jesus Christ had not only impacted the writing of the first Rocky film, but also that his decision to create the final movie was ...

In the summer of 2006, Jews for Jesus concluded a 66-month evangelistic campaign with a month-long New York finale. Two hundred missionaries worked the streets for JFJ's largest-ever campaign in New York, which boasts the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel. They distributed 1 million tracts and collected contact information for more than 5,000 people.

The members of Jews for Jesus, ...

A new study links teen sexual intercourse with depression and suicide attempts. The findings are particularly true for young girls, says the Heritage Foundation. About 25 percent of sexually active girls say they are depressed all, most, or a lot of the time; 8 percent of girls who are not sexually active say they feel the same.

The Heritage study taps the government funded National Longitudenal Survey ...

In his book The New Absolutes, William Watkins identifies 10 core convictions that govern today's secularists:

(1) Religion interferes with freedom and must be banished from the public square.

(2) Human life is valuable only as long as it is wanted.

(3) Marriage is a human contract made between any two people, and can be terminated for any reason.

(4) Family is any grouping of two or more people.

(5) Sexual ...

Dads and sons going to a baseball game is virtually a rite of passage in America, a bonding time that lingers long in a son's memory. And dads don't have to do much more than show up. But showing up isn't enough for some folks. Simply sharing some time with the kids wasn't glorious enough for William Ligue Jr., who incited his 15-year-old son to charge the field with him and attack a baseline coach. ...

M. Night Shyamalan is the young filmmaker of Indian heritage responsible for the popular films, The Sixth Sense, Signs, and The Village. Reflecting on the spiritual themes of some of his movies, a Christian Science Monitor article reports:

Shyamalan's spiritual beliefs are largely a mystery. In high school he was put off by the dogmatism he encountered. He told Time magazine in a 2000 interview that ...