Prisoners Share Stories About Their Freedom

New York magazine interviewed several former inmates and asked them to describe their first hours or day of freedom. These men had been wrongfully convicted, ...

Married to 'Mr. Law' or 'Mr. Grace'?

We were married to Mr. Law. He was a good man, in his way, but he did not understand our weakness. He came home every evening and asked, "So, how ...

The Sparkly Psychology of Frozen

Disney's hit 2013 film Frozen captured the imaginations of millions of young princesses and princes around the world. But why did the franchise explode ...

Freed Slave Says, 'I'll Go with You'

There's a story that has been told from Civil War days before America's slaves were freed, about a northerner who went to a slave auction and ...

Woman Doesn't Realize She Was Forgiven 20 Years Ago

Pastor Steve Brown writes:

Early in my ministry I counseled a woman who, some twenty years before, had been unfaithful to her husband. For years that sin ...

A Modern Slave and a Modern Abolitionist Talk About Captive Identity

The African nation of Mauritania was the last nation in the world to outlaw slavery—in 1981—and it wasn't until 2007 that a law was passed ...

Experiment Shows How the Law Leads to Sin

Robert Cialdini, a researcher and an expert on the theory of persuasion, conducted an experiment at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. The ...

Marine Air Station Welcomes 'the Sound of Freedom'

The U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is located in Havelock, North Carolina, close to some of the Atlantic's most beautiful beaches. But ...

Former North Korean Prisoner Talks about Happiness

According to Amnesty International, North Korea has a vast network of gulags that imprison over 200,000 people. The most feared camp is known as "Total ...

Key Thinkers Define Freedom Apart from God

Os Guinness traces our contemporary idea of human freedom that "began in the Renaissance … blossomed in the Enlightenment and rose to its ...