Pat Krantz: Bereaved Parent

Pat Krantz: A bereaved parent who comforts others

Pat Krantz lost her 9-week-old baby, Michael, in 1975 during open heart surgery. Well-meaning friends ...

Love Is Never Lost

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Anthropological Evidence of Compassion

One day a student asked anthropologist Margaret Mead for the earliest sign of civilization in a given culture. He expected the answer to be a clay pot ...

Friend to Teenage Mothers

"I'd like to help put on a prom for moms like me," the 17-year-old girl tells Anderson [Indiana] University junior Heather Brown. "It ...

Compassion from the Enemy

It was 1944, and Bert Frizen was an infantryman on the front lines in Europe. American forces had advanced in the face of intermittent shelling and small-arms ...

Calling Forth Compassion

In 1975 a child named Raymond Dunn, Jr. was born in New York State. The Associated Press reports that at his birth, a skull fracture and oxygen deprivation ...

Kneeling to See His Eyes

Copenhagen is a nice city and there are many things to see there. But if I could only spend one hour in Copenhagen, the place I'd go again would be ...

The Benefits of a Broken Heart

If your own heart hasn't been broken, you tend to be insensitive, except to those people you like.

Pay Attention to the Pain

When the Spirit, revealing the will of God for the world, creates in the heart a great pain and a great discontent, do not check it. That is what Christian ...

Bearing Each Other's Burdens

Last spring, Mr. Alter's fifth-grade class at Lake Elementary School in Oceanside, California, included fourteen boys who had no hair. Only one, however, ...