A 2008 survey by The Barna Group asked adults which, if any, of eight behaviors with moral overtones they had engaged in during the past week. The behaviors included looking at pornography, using profanity, gambling, gossiping, engaging in sexual intercourse with someone to whom they were not married, retaliating against someone, getting drunk, and lying. Of those surveyed:

• Twenty-eight percent had used profanity.
  
  

Munich is the Steven Spielberg movie based on true events from the 1972 Summer Olympics, in which Palestinian terrorists held Israeli athletes hostage and eventually murdered them.

In an act of nationalistic retaliation, a small, unlikely squad of Israeli agents is sent to gain revenge on the Palestianians behind the murders. But, over time, what seemed like righteous anger turns into cold bloodshed, ...

Police chiefs, school teachers, and social workers are all reporting an alarming new trend in the U.S. Girls are becoming more violent, more often. Justice Department statistics show that violent acts by teenage boys outstrips acts by teenage girls 4 to 1. However, a generation ago it was 10 to 1.

Former Baltimore school police chief Jansen Robinson, commented that girls have gradually become as violent ...

After 125 years, the infamous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is finally history. Sixty descendants of the original clans gathered on Saturday, June 14, 2003, in Pikefield, Kentucky, to sign a document declaring an official end to more than a century of hatred and bloodshed.

Most think the feuding between the McCoys of Kentucky and Hatfields of West Virginia began in 1878 when Randolph McCoy ...

It all started in 1998 when Michael Zwick of Glenview, Illinois, complained about his neighbor's new fence. It left a dark area behind the garage where gang members might hang out, he felt. In response to his complaint, the neighbor, Jean Craft, according to The Chicago Tribune, told Zwick not to put his recycling bins on the public parkway in front of her house because they were killing the grass. ...

When asked what they would try to do when wronged, American adults chose forgiveness over revenge six to one. A Gallup Poll found that 48 percent would "try to forgive" while 8 percent would "try to get even."

Other responses: discussing the problem (48 percent), overlooking the offense (45 percent), praying for comfort and guidance (27 percent), and praying for the offender (25 percent). And while ...

On an old "Amos and Andy" television program, Andy was angry. There was a big man who would continually slap Andy across the chest every time they met. Andy finally had enough of it. He told Amos, "I'm going to get revenge. I put a stick of dynamite in my vest pocket. The next time he slaps me on the chest he's going to get his hand blown off." But Andy forgot that the dynamite would also blow ...

To forgive someone involves three things. First, it means to forego the right of striking back. One rejects the urge to repay gossip with gossip and a bad turn with a worse turn. Second, it means replacing the feeling of resentment and anger with good will, a love which seeks the other's welfare, not harm. Third, it means the forgiving person takes concrete steps to restore good relations.

Have you never tasted the luxury of indulging in hard thoughts against those who have, as you think, injured you? Have you never known what a positive fascination it is to brood over their unkindnesses, and to pry into their malice, and to imagine all sorts of wrong and uncomfortable things about them? It has made you wretched, of course, but it has been a fascinating sort of wretchedness that you ...