The Guardian is the story of Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher), a high-school swim champ who enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School. Here, legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) teaches him some hard lessons about self-sacrifice.

After Randall reluctantly takes an assignment to train a new batch of potential rescue swimmers, one of the first training exercises for the new recruits is ...

The Ant Bully is a computer-animated movie about a boy, Lucas, who terrorizes an ant colony on his lawn by spraying water and stepping on them. In response, an ant wizard devises a magic potion that makes their enemy, Lucas, shrink to ant size. Throughout the film, the boy is forced to live and work with the ants. Along the way, he learns several lessons about courage and loyalty, and becomes sympathetic ...

Acclaimed newsman Walter Cronkite hosts PBS's 2003 documentary Heroes of World War II, a look at the many American military officers who won the second great war through dedication, sacrifice, and bravery. In this scene Cronkite describes the battle Americans and Germans fought over territory near Bastogne, France.

"The U.S. forces in Bastogne were now surrounded by the Germans," Cronkite says in voiceover ...

At Teen Missions, campers give up virtually their entire summer for [a boot camp] on evangelism. They spend two weeks in Merritt Island, Florida, learning the work of a missionary before heading into the world in teams of about 25. They are schooled in evangelism, construction, and Bible studies. They don purple construction hats as they work the ground with hoes and wheelbarrows. They practice public ...

It's always fun to learn the story behind the story. The other day I saw an inspiring glimpse into what helped propel the New York Giants to the Super Bowl championship. In various ways before seeing this TV feature story, I had heard about how the Giants had turned around a season that appeared to be heading nowhere, and then I saw part of their last game of the season against the Patriots when they ...

If only adults showed as much sound judgment as an infant! Through a series of tests, Yale University's Infant Cognition Center has found that babies as young as six to ten months old know what's right and wrong. Researchers sat babies down in front of a roller coaster-like track to watch a cartoon-eyed wooden toy try to climb its way to the top of one of the hills. As the toy climbed, other toys ...

With the growth of the multinational church, mission is becoming multidirectional. The U.S. remains the largest single contributor of Protestant cross-cultural missionaries. But which country is the second largest? Not a Western nation, but India. And it is possible that India has overtaken the States in the number of those involved in truly cross-cultural mission—both within and beyond India. ...

Bradford Cohen, a contestant on Donald Trump's TV reality show The Apprentice, turned down his exemption from getting dismissed from the show. He did this as a gesture of support for his team leader, assuming his performance would protect him from hearing the dreaded words, "You're fired." He was mistaken. Accused by Trump of making a stupid mistake, Bradford was sent packing.

Although it might be ...

When Sumner Spence expressed his desire to attend college, many people scoffed because he suffers from cerebral palsy. Sumner can't read books because his eyes won't focus. He can't hold onto things very well because his hands clench uncontrollably. Taking notes in a classroom would be out of the question. Anyone who knew Sumner would have thought it perfectly understandable if he had never set a ...

Robert Roberts writes about a 4th grade class in which the teacher introduced a game called The Balloon Stomp. A balloon was tied to every child's ankle, and the object of the game was to pop everybody else's balloon while protecting your own. The last person with an intact balloon would win the game. The concept was if I win, then you lose.

The 9-year-olds entered into the spirit of things vigorously. ...