Friend's Dedication Lands Cancer Patient on TV Sitcom

In this life, there are friends … and then then are friends.

In May 2009, Dillon Hill's best-friend-since-fourth-grade Chris Betancourt got ...

93-Year-Old Woman Finds 'Reason to Still Be Here'

Pro-life speaker and advocate Stephanie Gray tells the following story about treating each person—from the womb to the tomb—with dignity:

Every ...

Harvard Professor Worries 'Is Life Cosmically Irrelevant?'

Harvard professor James Wood, in a New Yorker article "Is That All There Is?" tells of a friend, a philosopher and a convinced atheist, who ...

14-Year-Old Decides Against Assisted Suicide

An article from First Things relates the story of Valentina Maureira, a fourteen-year old from Chile who suffered from cystic fibrosis, and desperately ...

William Bradford's Last Thanksgiving had an Eternal Perspective

The book, Mayflower , by Nathaniel Philbrick is the story of the Pilgrims coming to America in 1620. Their governor and spiritual leader here was William ...

Driver Leads Police in a Chase Because of His 'Bucket List'

"The world is peppered with people who can coax small seeds of inspiration into richly flowering ideas that put humankind on a better path. And then ...

Richard Dreyfuss Reflects on His Mortality

The actor Richard Dreyfuss claims that he has a keen sense of his own mortality. He is an agnostic, but he believes in at least the possibility of reincarnation. ...

Wealthy Man Would Trade it all for Health

Jerry Oppenheimer's book, Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty recounts the story of the family made unimaginably ...

Terminal Cancer Patients Question Life's Meaning

William Breitbart, the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, specializes ...

Rock Star Reflects on His Mortality

Iggy Popp (aged 77 as of December 2024) is a singer, musician, and actor, whose band, the Stooges, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In ...