A Friend's Refusal to Let Go of Endangered Friend

A recent USA Today article portrayed vividly the courage of true friendship:

Anne Hjelle and Debbie Nichols were friends who were mountain biking on a ...

Friends Carry Doubting Widower

In the book Stories for the Journey, William R. White tells about a European seminary professor named Hans and his wife, Enid. World War II forced them ...

Living with a Tiger

The New York Times reported:

His obsession began innocently enough, with the puppies and broken-winged birds many little boys beg to bring home. Over the ...

Modeling How a Christian Man Dies

When New Testament scholar William Lane taught at Western Kentucky University, contemporary musician Michael Card was a student of his, and they developed ...

Adoniram Judson Conversion Story

Before Adoniram Judson became the pioneer of American foreign missions he was a rebel. He finished at the top of his college class and headed to New York ...

Baseball All-Star Ozzie Smith: Wrapped in Encouragement

Ozzie Smith, a 15-time National League All-Star, is considered by many to be the greatest shortstop of all time. On July 28, 2002, he was inducted into ...

Cheating on an English Test

Allison Asimakoupoulos writes in Campus Life:

My first grade teacher, Mrs. Ayres, taught me things I needed to know to start school right, including one ...

Bowling Acquaintance Donates Kidney

In Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam writes:

Before October 29, 1997, John Lambert and Andy Boschma knew each other only through their local bowling league ...

Sharing Grief in Times of Loss

Nancy Guthrie writes in “Holding onto Hope: Drawn by Suffering to the Heart of God:”

Not long after my six-month-old daughter Hope died, I ...

God Picks Up Our Tab

Wayne Cordeiro tells the following story in an interview with Preaching Today:

I have a friend named Gene who would take me to lunch every week. And every ...