3.5% Can Change the World

Non-violent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts. Those engaging a threshold of 3.5 percent of the population have never failed ...

Mark Wahlberg on the Change God Made in His Life

Mark Wahlberg got into trouble in his youth. He often skipped school and had run-ins with police. At the age of 16, he robbed a convenience store, resulting ...

Psychiatrist Says People Don’t Need Information but Transformation

The renowned child psychiatrist Robert Coles told this story in a graduate class at Harvard University many years ago: “A highly regarded psychiatrist ...

Why Hollywood Praises Elliot Page (and Blacklists Becket Cook)

For years Becket Cook had a highly successful career as a production designer in the fashion world. During that time, he lived fully engaged as a gay ...

Former Bank Robber Sworn in as a Lawyer

Twenty years ago, 19-year-old Robert W. VanSumeren stood nervously in a Michigan courtroom as Judge Michael Smith sentenced him to six years in prison ...

The Phone Call That Changed an Addict's Life

Auburn Sandstrom, professor of writing from the University of Akron, tells her story:

I was curled up in a fetal position on a filthy carpet in a cluttered ...

Tattoo Shop Offers to Cover Up Hate and Gang Symbols for Free

A tattoo parlor in Kentucky is using ink to unite communities across the country by offering free appointments to anyone who wants to cover up their hate ...

Man’s Discrimination Lawsuit Highlights Journey from Criminal to Christian

Michael Fesser has been treated very badly by people in authority, but his greatest vindication seems to be in proving that he’s not the man he ...

Former Maximum Security Prisoner is Now a Mayor

Thirty-one-year-old Jermaine Wilson grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas selling drugs out of his childhood apartment. He started using drugs at age 11 and ...

The ‘Easter Effect’ and How it Changed the World

In a Wall Street Journalarticle, George Weigel gives a combination history lesson and apologetic for the Resurrection:

There is no accounting for the rise ...