Look-Alike Contest Fails to Recognize the Original

Charlie Chaplin was a huge movie star in the silent-picture era. One of the by-products of his popularity were the look-alike contests that sprung up ...

Turtle Rescue Is a Metaphor for Life

Author Barbara Brown Taylor writes:

Several summers ago, I spent three days on a barrier island where loggerhead turtles were laying their eggs. One night ...

Humans with Lie Detecting Ability

Maureen O'Sullivan is a deception expert. She says that even though most people believe they can easily detect when someone is lying, they are wrong ...

Gorilla Proves We Can Miss the Obvious

Why do some people see opportunities others miss? In the book Did You Spot the Gorilla? psychologist Richard Wiseman describes an experiment that provides ...

Mislabeling Fish for Profit

When is red snapper not red snapper? When a DNA test declares it otherwise.

Species of fish like sheepshead, porgies, and grunts are similar to red snapper ...

Mel Gibson Believes in Spiritual Warfare

At the January pastors' screening of The Passion of the Christ at Willow Creek Church in Illinois, Gibson explained why he used a veiled female figure ...

VeggieTales CEO on Misinterpreting God's Will

After losing an $11 million lawsuit, Big Idea Productions Inc., creator of VeggieTales, announced that it filed for bankruptcy and sold its copyrights ...

Cuddly Bear Conceals Dangerous Weapon

After a relaxing, week-long summer vacation in Florida with their 10-year-old son, Robert and Angela Barry of Grove City, Ohio, left for the airport to ...

Prisoner Frightened by Freedom

In the film The Shawshank Redemption, Ellis "Red" Redding has spent his prime wasting away in prison because of a reckless act of violence he ...

A Profound Blessing

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless ...