"Seabiscuit": A Banged Up Life Is Worth Saving

One of the main characters in the movie Seabiscuit is a broken-down, unemployed cowboy named Tom Smith. Millionaire Charles Howard, who is about to engage ...

Jack Bivans Unshackled

For decades Jack Bivans has been one of the radio voices on Unshackled!, the radio theater produced by Chicago's Pacific Garden Mission for over 50 ...

"Lord of the Rings": Overcoming Adam in Us

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Christian author J. R. R. Tolkien portrays the classic conflict between good and evil set in a mythical ...

Hope After Disaster on Everest

English explorer George Mallory dreamed of conquering Mount Everest. He organized an expedition, but it failed. A second attempt also failed. A third ...

Condoleezza Rice on the Privilege of Struggle

During remarks at a National Prayer Breakfast Condoleezza Rice said:

We are living through a time of testing and consequence—and praying that our ...

Unexpected Answers to Problems

How do you solve a personal problem? Let's say you have a fondness for gossip or quarreling. How do you stop? Or suppose you have a life-controlling ...

Doctor Risks Himself to Advance Medicine

Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane was the chief surgeon of Kane Summit Hospital in New York City and had practiced his specialty for 37 years. He was convinced ...

Army Skydiver Overcomes Accident

Dana Bowman and Jose Aguillon, members of the Golden Knights, the U.S. Army's top parachute team, were practicing a maneuver called the "diamond ...

"A Beautiful Mind": Loving the Unlovable

The movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician whose career and life were crippled by schizophrenia. Nash taught at ...

Leaders and Followers at Mount Everest

The summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal towers 29,035 feet above sea level. On May 29, 1953, two men were the first to reach its ...