Youth Pastor Witnessed through His Death

Ninie Hammon worked as a reporter for a small newspaper in Lebanon, Kentucky in 1988. On May 14th of that year, newspapers throughout the country carried ...

Bereaved Family Extends Grace to Physician

In his book Unexpected Blessings, Cameron Lee includes a story related to him by a friend, involving the death of the friend's baby sister.

During ...

Photographer's Indifference Drove Him to Suicide

In 1994, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. The photograph that brought him fame depicted an emaciated ...

Call Him Superman

If your name was Superman would you expect to get picked on? Swedish tax authorities thought so and declined a request by Sara Leisten to name her newborn ...

Woman Aborts Two of Her Triplets

"The Lives" column in New York Times Magazine carried a first-person account of Amy Richards and her decision to abort two of three fetuses ...

Disabled Surfer Stays Joyful Amidst Adversity

Bethany Hamilton, once ranked as the best amateur teen surfer in Hawaii, lost an arm to a tiger shark in October 2003. Both her compassion and competitiveness, ...

California Firestorm Makes Hesitation Fatal

In the fall of 2003, a string of Southern California wildfires eventually claimed two-dozen lives. The flames moved at a speed faster than people could ...

Mother Recognizes "Dead" Daughter

In 1997, a rapidly moving blaze destroyed the Philadelphia home of Luz Cuevas. It was concluded that, tragically, the fire had killed and completely consumed ...

Grieving Father Trusts Eternal Shipbuilder

Author Richard Exley writes:

I know one minister who returned to his pulpit ten days after his son committed suicide. Under duress he read his text: "And ...

Baby's Fingers Prevent an Abortion

In The Joy Luck Club, author Amy Tan describes her pro-choice friend's reflections on abortion:

I almost aborted my daughter. When I found out I was ...