Holding Grudges Weighs You Down

According to researchers at Erasmus University carrying a grudge can weigh you down—literally. The researchers asked study participants to write ...

Malcolm Gladwell Rediscovers His Christian Roots

Best-selling author Malcom Gladwell shared that while writing his latest book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, ...

Nelson Mandela Was Ready to Suffer for His Convictions

In 1964 Nelson Mandela began his prison sentence at Rodden Island, the former site of a leper colony and the insane. For the next 27 years, Mandela would ...

Forgiveness Is God's Gift to 'Wite-Out' Mistakes

Back in the days when everyone used typewriters there was a little thing called Wite-Out. Wite-Out dates to 1966 when an insurance-company clerk named ...

George Washington's $300,000 Library Fine

While George Washington was in his first term as president, He borrowed the book The Law of Nations by Emmerich de Vattel from the historic New York Society ...

Old Woman Walks to Cemetery to Spit on Grave

In his best-selling book The Telling Room, Michael Paterniti shares a true story he heard when visiting his father's ancestral village in Sicily. ...

Three Ships Overload and Get Lost at Sea

In January 1999 the North Atlantic commercial fishing industry saw a deadly string of accidents. In a 13-day span, the Cape Fear, the Adriatic, and the ...

Film 42 Shows Jackie Robinson's Christlike Strength

In the movie 42, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. Rickey recruits Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), ...

Warrior Tribe Realizes the Power of Confession

When the Ku Waru warriors of Papua New Guinea were about to launch any risky activity that required close cooperation—like going into battle—they ...

Craig Groeschel Sought Revenge after His Sister's Sexual Abuse

Craig Groeschel writes in “Soul Detox”:

My biggest struggle with bitterness started when my family discovered the awful truth about someone ...