Waitress's Kindness Rewarded

Every day, for close to seven years, Walter "Buck" Swords cursed and stomped his feet in his favorite restaurant, Luby's Cafeteria, demanding ...

The Blessing of Disability

When asked how he would describe his disabilities, Patrick Henry Hughes replied, "[They're] not disabilities at all—more [like] abilities." ...

Camp Allows Kids to Make Their Own Religion

Camp Quest West, just north of Sacramento, California, is no church camp. Designed for children of agnostics, atheists, freethinkers, and humanists, the ...

Focusing on the Sin of Others

When our children were young, my husband and I decided we wouldn't watch R-rated movies. We wouldn't allow our children to watch them, so we decided ...

Toys for Tots Rejects Jesus Doll

As stated on the Toys for Tots website: "The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during ...

Chesterton on Tolerance

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Chesterton on Defining Evil

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Halle Berry Not Sure Which God to Believe In

I believe in God. I just don't know if that God is Jehovah, Buddha or Allah.

—Actress Halle Berry

Teachers Re-label Failure

For some time, educators have faced accusations of "dumbing down" exams in order to compensate for increasingly poor student performances.

The ...

Seven Deadly Sins Redefined

According to the London Times, the seven deadly sins—: anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, greed, and lust, which were first devised by Pope Gregory ...