Panera's Kind Deed Has Huge Impact

Brandon Cook was visiting his ailing grandmother in a New Hampshire hospital. Nearby was a Panera café. The following letter explains what happened ...

Company Excels at Tearing Products Apart

When the latest smartphone is released workers from Teardown.com line up in the early morning hours at stores to buy these devices. Then they returne ...

‘Moments of Grace’ In the Face of Ebola

When the Ebola outbreak broke out in West Africa Dr. Ian Crozier signed up immediately with the World Health Organization, volunteering his skills to ...

Studies Show Gratitude Increases Happiness

Two psychologists, Dr. Robert A. Emmons and Dr. Michael E. McCullough, have done much of the research on gratitude. In one study, they asked all participants ...

Marriage Expert: Marriages Thrive on Kindness

What helps a marriage thrive? John Gottman, one of the world's leading researchers on marital relationships, looks for the presence of contempt or ...

Suicide Victim Can't Find One Kind Person

The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the city of San Francisco with Marin County by spanning the Golden Gate Strait, is one of our world's most recognizable ...

Nearly 400 Starbucks Customers 'Pay It Forward'

How this for a streak of kindness? According to a report in the Tampa Bay Times, "The acts of kindness [in St. Petersburg, Florida] began at 7 A.M. ...

Woman Ministers to Telemarketers

Once, while speaking on the topic of grace in Toronto, I asked the audience about their own experiences conveying grace to others. One woman shocked us ...

Actress Gives First Class Seat to Serviceman

The Comedian Louis CK has a routine in which he jokes about having the impulse to give up his first class airline seat to a soldier. Louis CK says,

[Service ...

Policeman's Kind Deed to a Homeless Man

In 2012, on a cold November night in Times Square, Officer Lawrence DePrimo was working a counterterrorism post when he encountered an older, barefooted ...