Woman Throws Engagement Ring

One fine day in 1941, Violet Bailey and her fiancé Samuel Booth were strolling through the English countryside, deeply in love and engaged to be ...

How God Comforts

God comforts in many ways, and James and Jill Kilibarda of Minnesota have discovered one of those ways.

Looking forward to the birth of their first child, ...

Seattle Group Believes Alcoholics Can't Change

Can alcoholics overcome their addiction? Seattle's Downtown Emergency Services Center doesn't seem to think so. It's spending $11 million on permanent ...

The Art of Offering Condolence

College English professor Jess Decourcy Hinds, of Brooklyn, New York, recently lost her father to a painful battle with bone cancer. Following his death, ...

Website Guards Against "Dissing the Dead"

The laws of etiquette proclaim that we should not speak ill of the dead—especially the recently deceased. There is one place, however, where this ...

Husband Realizes His Own Selfishness

I've asked my wife through the years to support me in different ventures. When we were first married, I was a youth pastor and was taking classes at the ...

Confronting the Addiction of Harmful Words

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, has lectured throughout this country on the powerful, and often negative, impact of ...

Husband Seeks Attention in a Harmful Way

Recently, Jana and I weathered one of the most stressful weeks in our marriage. I'd spent the previous two weeks traveling for business, and that week ...

'For the Birds': The Reality of Cliques and Gossip

For the Birds is a short film included as part of the Monsters, Inc. DVD. In the clip, several small birds fly onto a telephone wire and begin to squabble—chirping ...

"The Thing About My Folks": Wife Hurt by Husband's Neglect

The Thing About My Folks, with Paul Reiser and Peter Falk, is about a man named Ben who is finally able to spend some quality time with his father, Sam, ...