In his book Dad the Family Coach, Dave Simmons describes the shape love took in the life of his daughter.

I took Helen (8-years-old) and Brandon (5-years-old) to the Cloverleaf Mall in Hattiesburg to do a little shopping. As we drove up, we spotted a Peterbilt 18-wheeler parked with a big sign on it that said "Petting Zoo." The kids jumped up in a rush and asked, "Daddy, can we go? Please. Please. ...

The Guardian is about the heroic and sacrificial efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard.

In a DVD bonus feature, Rescue Swimmer Joseph Flythe comments: "Hurricane Katrina really brought out what a Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer is because we were plastered all over the national media. It was the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers you saw go down to the roofs, pulling people out. We were all working 18–24 hour ...

The Guardian depicts the heroic and sacrificial efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard. Legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall trains a group of recruits—particularly a high school swim champion with a troubled past—to save those lost and perishing at sea.

In this scene, Ben (Kevin Costner) and Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher) have just completed a rescue in the Bering Sea near Kodiak, Alaska. A fierce ...

When our children were young, my husband and I decided we wouldn't watch R-rated movies. We wouldn't allow our children to watch them, so we decided that to watch them ourselves would be confusing to them. We made this decision in good conscience and never regretted it. I found, however, that it made me feel judgmental toward other parents who watched R-rated movies. I began to feel they weren't fully ...

October 2, 2006, was a dark day for the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. That morning, a local milkman named Charles Carl Roberts barricaded himself inside the West Nickel Mine Amish School. He was armed with three guns, knives, and over 600 rounds of ammunition. When police attempted to intervene less than half an hour later, Roberts opened fire on 11 girls—all less than 14-years-old—killing ...

In the animated movie Ice Age, when saber-tooth tigers attack a tribe of nomads, a mother and her baby attempt to outrun the man-eating beasts but are cornered at a raging waterfall. With no other option available, the mother jumps, securely cradling her baby. She is mortally injured in the fall but survives long enough to deposit her newborn on the riverbank. The little boy is discovered by a wooly ...

Marriage strips away the illusions about sex pounded into us daily by the entertainment media. Few of us live with oversexed supermodels. We live instead with ordinary people, men and women who get bad breath, body odors, and unruly hair; who menstruate and experience occasional impotence; who have bad moods and embarrass us in public; who pay more attention to our children's needs than our own.

We ...

Based on a true story of an army commander in Vietnam, We Were Soldiers tells of Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) leading his troops into one of the bloodiest battles in American history. Moore is a Christian, a great leader, and an American hero (recently he was honored at West Point for his service to America).

At the beginning of the movie Moore gives a stirring speech to his troops, promising his ...

Beauty and the Beast, a Walt Disney animated movie, tells the story of a beautiful French girl, Belle, who finds the love of Beast, a prince condemned long ago to live a life of shame and ugliness because he could not love.

One night, Belle's father, Maurice, gets lost in a forest and is thrown from his horse. When the horse returns without Maurice the next day, Belle sets off to find him. She follows ...

Former college football coach and Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney tells about a man named Ivan who is a Vietnam veteran. Ivan lives in Denver, and his life is in ruins because of something that happened three decades ago.

While in Vietnam, Ivan's squad befriended some Vietnamese village children who would visit the men daily to peddle candy. Ivan became friendly—no, paternal—with a little seven-year-old ...