Japanese Ambassador Saves Jews from Gestapo

As a boy, Chiune Sugihara dreamed of becoming Japan's ambassador to Russia. By the 1930s, as ambassador to Lithuania, he was a step away from fulfilling ...

Math Test Humbles the Brainiest Students

In Time Lev Grossman writes:

Every year on the first Saturday in December, twenty-five hundred of the most brilliant college students in North America ...

Overlooked WWII Soldier Doesn't Worry About Getting Credit

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Commander Joe Rochefort broke Japanese communication codes. Stationed at an intelligence base in Oahu, he predicted ...

TV's Flawed "Heroes" Challenge Morality

Shows like HBO's hit "The Sopranos" and FX's stark cop drama "The Shield" have introduced TV viewers to a new kind of protagonist. ...

Actor Bruce Willis on Fatherhood

Actor Bruce Willis, star of the films Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, and Armageddon lived life as a brash, ambitious party-goer and womanizer. He says: ...

Lucado Says God's Standard Is Perfection

Author Max Lucado writes:

All of us occasionally do what is right. A few predominately do what is right. But do any of us always do what is right? According ...

Paul Simon: What God Requires

In a Rolling Stone interview, musician Paul Simon offers his thoughts on what God requires of us:

The only thing that God requires from us is to enjoy ...

Clothed for Entrance to Heaven

I make no claim to being a good golfer, but I love to play golf, watch golf, and on good nights I even dream golf.

So when I was invited to attend the ...

Standard of Judgment

In Words We Live By, Brian Burrell tells of an armed robber named Dennis Lee Curtis who was arrested in 1992 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Curtis apparently ...

Tower of Virtue

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.