Letter to the Editor Spurs Opiate Addictions

In his book Dreamland, journalist Sam Quinones points to one paragraph of false information that helped pave the way for the surge in addicts to the highly ...

Intervention for Anorexic Woman at Gym

At the height of her eating disorder, strangers on the streets of Nashville would stop Lauryn Lax to tell her to "Go eat a cheeseburger" or ...

Christians Give Up Alcohol Out of Love for Neighbors

In a Christianity Today article, a 30-year-old Christian named D.L. Mayfield describes how her and her husband made a decision to abstain from alcohol: ...

The Slow Path to Sexual Addiction

Mike Cosper writes in “The Stories We Tel”:

A few years ago I met with a church member who was struggling with sexual sin with his girlfriend, ...

Cellphones: The Invisible Addiction

Baylor University released findings about college students' cell phone use. Their shocking finding? Using cell phones is more time consuming for modern ...

Robin Williams on the Power of Addiction

On August 11, 2014, the actor Robin Williams took his own life. The 63-year-old actor, who was loved by many fans and fellow actors, was an admitted abuser ...

World War 2 'Cargo Cults'—Faith Without Power

Natives of the islands of the South West Pacific had very little, if any, contact with the modern world and its many technological advances. So during ...

Child Picks Up Grenade at Easter Egg Hunt

Stuart Moffatt awoke on the Saturday before Easter, loaded up his wife and three kids in the family car, and headed to the annual Easter Egg Hunt in the ...

Are We Addicted to Negative Words?

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, has lectured throughout this country on the powerful, often negative impact of words. ...

Man Robs Same Store 15 Years Apart

In 1999, 25-year-old Christopher Miller was arrested after he forced employees into the back room of the Stride Rite shoe store on Hooper Avenue in Toms ...