Tony Dungy, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, lost his 18-year-old son to suicide near the end of the Colts' 2005 season. At the funeral service at Idlewood Baptist Central on December 27, 2005, Dungy offered a heartbreaking appeal to fathers.

"God can provide joy in the midst of a sad occasion," he said. "And the challenge is to find that joy. I urge you not to take your relations for granted. ...

Mandisa Hundley, gospel singer and one of the 12 finalists on the TV show American Idol, met with judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson to find out if she made it through to the next round of the competition.

Simon had previously made a sarcastic remark upon seeing Mandisa, who is a heavy-set woman: "Do we have a bigger stage this year?"

When she entered the room to learn the judges' ...

When asked about the conservative tone of the 2006 fall collections fashion show in Paris, world-famous designer Miuccia Prada replied: "The super-exposure of nudity seems not to have given much happiness to women."

According to a poll conducted in January 2006 by the Terror Free Tomorrow organization, humanitarian aid is a very effective way to improve how Muslim countries view the United States of America.

In May of 2003, research indicated that only 15 percent of people in Indonesia—the world's most populous Muslim nation—had a favorable view of the U.S. However, the country was later devastated by ...

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back—in many ways it is a feast fit for a king.

The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down ...

The following story from author Leonard Sweet highlights the importance of valuing our relationships with other people:

Tom Wiles served a stint as university chaplain at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. A few years ago, he picked me up at the Phoenix airport in his new Ford pickup and whisked me away to keynote a leadership conference at the university. Since I was still mourning the trade-in ...

In an interview published on May 8, 2006, Newsweek magazine asked Tom Hanks, "How do you soothe the people who consider the story [of The Da Vinci Code] offensive?"

Hanks replied, "We're all gonna keep using the word 'fiction.' Fiction, fiction, fiction."

But whatever you think of The Da Vinci Code, you'd have to say that it's a very unusual kind of fiction. In historical fiction, everyone expects that ...

Dr. Samuel Weinstein is the chief of pediatric cardio-thoracic surgery for the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. In May of 2006, he traveled to El Salvador with Heart Care International in order to provide life-saving operations for less-fortunate children. However, it would take more than his expertise and advanced equipment to save the life of 8-year-old Francisco ...