Brené Brown on the Church as Midwife

Popular author and speaker Brené Brown recently described what she called a "breakdown" that propelled her to go back to church. But in a video ...

Lawyer Learns That We're All Broken

In his bestselling book, Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, tells the story of Jimmy Dill, a convicted murderer who had ...

Story About a Man Whose Dreams Shattered

Tennessee Williams's short story "Something by Tolstoi," tells the story of Jacob Brodsky, a shy Russian Jew who runs his father's bookshop. ...

Broken People Praying to a Broken Buddha

Pastor/author J.R. Vassar writes about ministering in Myanmar (Burma) and coming upon a broken Buddha:

One day we were prayer walking through a large Buddhist ...

An 'Oops' of Kingly Proportions

If you're afraid of the legendary curse of King Tutankhamen, be very, very glad that you're not one of several (unnamed) employees tasked with ...

Lego Pieces Rise from the Ocean's Bottom

A beach near Perranporth, Cornwall (in Great Britain) is unlike any other stretch of coast in the world. Not for its breakers or sand, but for what washes ...

Can People Die of a ‘Broken Heart’?

BBC news writer Stephen Evans was curious—he'd heard account after account of long-married elderly couples who, sometimes inexplicably, died ...

House Fire (Like the Fall) Leaves Permanent Damage

In his book The First Chapters of Everything: How Genesis 1-4 Explains Everything, Alisdair Paine illustrates how sin and the Fall have spoilt the blessings ...

Son Carries Father Wound After Parent's Divorce

In his memoir, Greg Bellow, the son of the famous 20th century American novelist Saul Bellow, writes movingly about his relationship with his father. ...

Japanese Art Finds Beauty in Imperfection

According to Japanese legend, a young man named Sen no Rikyu sought to learn the elaborate set of customs known as the "Way of Tea." He went ...