C. S. Lewis' Last Letter about Narnia

Less than one month before he died in 1963, C. S. Lewis wrote the following letter to a young girl who wanted to know if any other Narnia books were going ...

Housepainter's Availability Leads to Rescue

Fathers Day 2005 was not a joyful day for Toby Hawkins of Bountiful, Utah. His 11-year-old son Brennan Hawkins had been missing for two days. A much-anticipated ...

Trade Tower Disaster Teaches "How to Get Out Alive"

A New York Times article titled, “How to Get Out Alive: What the Science of Evacuation Reveals About How Humans Behave in the Worst of Times,” ...

Dogwalker Finds Ancient Gold Penny

While walking his dog on a river-side path in Bedfordshire, England, a man found an ancient gold penny. After examining it, coin expert Richard Bishop ...

Britain's Ragtag Armada Accomplishes Remarkable Rescue

In The Word and Power Church, Doug Banister writes:

The spring of 1940 found Hitler's panzer divisions mopping up French troops and preparing for a ...

Persistent Rescuers Save Pennsylvania Miners

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, nine Pennsylvania miners were trapped 240 feet underground in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. For three days Americans followed ...

Woman Is Snatched From Fire

A wildfire erupted in the Angeles National Forest—a park in the San Gabriel Mountains of California. Sigrid Hopson, age 60, was alone in her home with ...

Evangelism Is Like an Usher's Obligation to Rescue Others

The story goes that a young man applied for a job as an usher at a theater in the mall. The manager asked him, "What would you do in case a fire ...

At World Trade Center, Father Seeks Lost Son

In "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center," William Langewiesche writes about the cleanup of the World Trade Center disaster. In ...

Why to Seek the Lost

On July 4, 1854, Charlie Peace, a well-known criminal in London, was hung. The Anglican Church, which had a ceremony for everything, even had a ceremony ...