Heart Attack Victims Find Meaning in Trial

It's hard to find meaning in the midst of tragedy. But in her book The How of Happiness, researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky shows that people who find some ...

Navy Seal Admiral Advises Don't Fear 'Circuses'

Admiral William H. McRaven, a 36-year Navy SEAL veteran, gave the commencement address to the Class of 2014 at the University of Texas in Austin. He titled ...

We Want Happiness but Suffering Forms Us

We live in a culture awash in talk about happiness. In one three-month period, more than 1,000 books were released on Amazon on that subject.

But notice ...

How Shepherds Submerge Their Sheep in Antiseptic

British shepherds often take sheep and rams, one by one, and throw them into a dipping trough, a huge vat filled with an antiseptic liquid. The shepherd ...

Man Miraculously Rescued from Capsized Ship

On May 26, 2013 at 4:30 A.M. the Jascon 4, one of three tugboats towing an oil freighter off the coast of Nigeria, started to sink. Harrison Odjegba Okene, ...

Persecuted Nigerian Pastor Praises God

The Nigerian city of Jos sits on Africa's great fault line between the Muslim north and Christian, and thus has faced terrible things in recent years. ...

'The Perfect Storm' Sometimes Hits Our Lives

When the Andrea Gail left Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts on September 20, 1991, and headed into the North Atlantic, no one could have known that this ...

Adversity Made Abraham Lincoln an Effective Leader

The movie Lincoln provides a glimpse into some of the challenges that President Lincoln faced while he was in office. But the level of suffering this ...

Baseball Star Finds Christ through Suffering & Failure

Barry Zito was once known as one of the most dominating pitchers in Major League baseball. But in 2010 Zito had reached his lowest point: He was removed ...

A Family Loses and Finds What Matters

An episode of This American Life (the popular NPR radio show) focused on a young woman named Sara who was sharing her family's public fall from grace. ...