Friends Show Unflinching Love To Severely Burned Man

B.J. Miller was a sophomore at Princeton when, one Monday night in November 1990, he and two friends slipped out for drinks and then decided to climb ...

Author Ta-Neishi Coates Wonders about the Church

In his New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a book length letter to his adolescent son, Samori. It's a brutally ...

Heavy Backpacks

Recent research has determined that children should not carry more than 10-15 percent of their total weight in their backpack. A follow-up question was ...

Man Saddened that Friends Can't Share His Grief

The British novelist Julian Barnes tried to capture the loneliness of what he calls "grief-work." After thirty years of marriage, his wife Pat died from ...

Nevada Hospital Ships Out Mentally Ill Patients

Over the past five years, Nevada's primary psychiatric hospital has found a novel way to deal with their mentally ill patients: they put them on Greyhound ...

Family Shows Persistent Love to Hurting Couple

John Knight and Denise Knight were happily anticipating the birth of their first child, a son. They had already decided to name him Paul. But when Paul ...

Loving the Unlovable as Christ Loved Us

Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, told the following story about persevering in our practice of unconditional love:

I know a man who ...

Pastor's Wife Forgives Gunman

Fred Winters, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois, was shot and killed during a Sunday service on March 8, 2009, by a troubled young ...

Story of Forgiven Drunk Driver Moves Beth Moore

In her book Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit, author and speaker Beth Moore recalls a particularly insightful moment in her life: ...

A Kind Interruption

One Sunday at my church, the choir had finished singing the anthem and the pastor was rising to deliver the message. It was a moment of holy expectation. ...