Man Shows Kindness to Teenage Mugger

Julio Diaz, a 31-year-old Bronx social worker, just wanted to do what he did every night on the way home from work: grab a quick bite to eat at his favorite ...

Man Starts Kidney Donation Chain

Michigan resident Matt Jones decided to offer one of his kidneys, simply because he knew someone would need it.

"I thought that if I could help one ...

A Lost Sense of Community

Amy Simpson writes in the Gifted for Leadership Blog:

I inherited an old trunk that sat in my grandma's basement. It had belonged to the generation ...

Kids Peacefully Demand Menu Change

After reading the children's book Frindel—which tells the story of a little boy organizing a boycott of the school cafeteria—students ...

Shoppers Ignore Dying Woman

The last thing LaShanda Calloway saw before she died was people literally stepping over her to continue shopping as if nothing had happened. Calloway ...

Father Has Unconditional Love for Sick Daughter

The following is a letter from a father to his daughter, taken from Dr. James Dobson's book, When God Doesn't Make Sense:

My Dear Bristol,

Before ...

Virginia Tech Professor Saves Lives, Loses His Own

As a gunman stormed Norris Hall at Virginia Tech University, the students in Professor Liviu Librescu's classroom could hear the shouts and gunfire ...

Looking for Jesus in the Eyes of the Homeless

In Portland, Oregon, the homeless gather under the Burnside Bridge. For more than three years, carloads of Christians from Bridgetown Ministries have ...

The Memory of Love

Roger Zerbe suffered from early onset Alzheimer's disease. His wife, Becky, remembers a journal entry he left for her after a particularly troubling ...

Children Pressured to Be Normal

For more than 30 years, Gordon Mackenzie worked at Hallmark, eventually convincing the company to create a special title for him: "creative paradox." ...