Teen's Sacrifice Saves Baby

Jeff Leeland had just accepted a teaching position at Kamiakin Junior High in Seattle, Washington. The family had endured months of Dad's driving ...

"Remember the Titans": Attitude and Leadership

Based on a true story, Remember the Titans spotlights the character formation of those caught in the difficult transition of integrating T. C. Williams ...

Wrong Way Regals: Instinct without Direction

Roy Regals was a center for the University of California in 1929 when they went up against Georgia Tech at the Rose Bowl. The game was scoreless when ...

POW Dies for Friends

In his moving book, Miracle on the River Kwai, Ernest Gordon tells his story of life as a Japanese prisoner of war among the men building the infamous ...

God and Truth Relieve Agony

Lloyd John Ogilvie, chaplain of the United States Senate, recalls:

Senator Max Cleland, who lost both of his legs and his right hand in Vietnam, came to ...

Healthful Community

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Let [the person] who cannot be alone beware of community. Let [the person] who is not in community beware of being alone." ...

Teamwork Saves a Life

Three thousand frightening feet above the ground, Soviet sport parachutist Yuri Belenko realized he was in trouble. His main chute had malfunctioned, ...

A Cross Runs through It

The 1992 film A River Runs through It, based on the autobiographical novel of Norman MacLean, chronicles two brothers coming of age in early twentieth-century ...

Jenny Thompson's Gold-Medal Teamwork

Jenny Thompson is a decorated American woman when it comes to Olympic competition. She has won ten Olympic medals in swimming. Eight of those ten medals ...

Help for Long Race

Eric "The Swimmer" Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea was an unlikely hero of the Sydney Olympic Games. The 22-year-old African had only learned ...