McCoys and Hatfields Bury Hatchet

After 125 years, the infamous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is finally history. Sixty descendants of the original clans gathered on Saturday, ...

Difference Between Anger and Hate

Healthy anger drives us to do something to change what makes us angry; anger can energize us to make things better. Hate does not want to change things ...

How Resentment Takes Hold

Resentment is when you let your hurt become hate. Resentment is when you allow what is eating you to eat you up. Resentment is when you poke, stoke, feed, ...

Neighborly Feuds

It all started when Michael Zwick of Glenview, Illinois, complained about his neighbor's new fence. It left a dark area behind the garage where gang ...

Breaking Spiral of Hate

My brother and I were driving one evening to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta. He was driving the car. And for some reason the drivers were very discourteous ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., on Lincoln

In his sermon "Loving Your Enemies," Martin Luther King, Jr., said:

When Abraham Lincoln was running for president of the United States, there ...

Bitter Envy

There is an ancient tale about two people, one of whom was envious of the other. The envious person was once given an opportunity to ask a favor from ...

When God Smiles

"I was alone, and those [segregationist] people were screaming, and suddenly I saw God smiling, and I smiled," one North Carolina girl of eight ...

Racism Still Alive

I recently went to the Smoky Mountains with some friends to do some rock climbing. We came to a small town near Knoxville, Tennessee, and pulled into ...

Anger Can Be Contagious

In his autobiography, Number 1, Billy Martin told about hunting in Texas with Mickey Mantle. Mickey had a friend who would let them hunt on his ranch. ...