Young Adults Wrestle with Faith and Prayer

NPR interviewed a number of young adults who are drifting from organized religion. A 26-year-old participant named Kyle Simpson grew up with Christian ...

Plane Passengers Rescue a Shipwrecked Man

It took a team effort to rescue one shipwrecked Aussie.

Mr. Glenn Ey, a 44-year-old Australian man, was lost at sea. What had been a relaxing two weeks ...

Zeke the Turtle Found after a 1,000-Foot Escape

For 31 years Zeke the turtle lived securely in the home of Bob and Debbie Young of Beverly, Massachusetts. But on July 30, 2012 the box turtle made a ...

Good News and Bad News Stats for Atheists

The following statistics reveal some good news and bad news for atheists. First, here are the good news stats for atheists:

• A 2012 poll suggests that 1 in 20 (or 5 percent) of Americans identify themselves as atheists. (The participants were asked to identify themselves as either "a religious person, a nonreligious person, or a convinced atheist.") That's a fivefold increase from the last time the survey was taken in 2005.

Film 'Taken' Shows a Father's Relentless Pursuit of His Daughter

In the 2008 film Taken, Liam Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a former CIA operative who determines to track down his teenage daughter after she's been kidnapped ...

Man Finds His Stolen Car after a 40-Year Search

In 1970, while Bob Russell (not the same Bob Russell who served as minister of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville) was a graduate student at Temple ...

Man Discovers He Was a Missing Child

Imagine one day discovering that you were a lost, missing child.

Marx Barnes—now named Steve Carter—born in 1977, had no inkling he was a lost, ...

Atheist Flabbergasted by a Church's Love

Patrick Greene of San Antonio, Texas, has had a long history of disliking and combating Christians. At one point Greene, an outspoken local atheist, threatened ...

Award-winning Writer Can't Get Over His "Jesus Phase"

John Jeremiah Sullivan, an award-winning writer who has been compared to the famous contemporary writers Tom Wolfe and David Foster Wallace, had what ...

The Power of Prayer: How Author John Dickson Came to the Faith

The Australian Christian author and speaker John Dickson came to Christ through the faithful witness of an ordinary, middle-aged mother named Glenda. ...