A Revenge Obsession from Moby Dick

Herman Melville's Moby Dick tells a story of revenge and obsession. Captain Ahab, a whaler, loses a leg to a white whale. A smoldering anger begins ...

Man Forgives His Son's Murderer

Dr. Robert Smith, a pastor and seminary professor, writes movingly of his struggle to forgive:

I remember so very well October 30th, I will never forget ...

Research Shows Cats Never Forgive

An article on the website The Science of Us listed what they called "17 Things We Know About Forgiveness." Perhaps the most interesting scientific ...

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 ...