Woody Allen on Immortality

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.

—Woody Allen, comedian and filmmaker

Racial Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Words

Describing the difficulty of racial reconciliation, one African American church leader tells this story:

It was my third year with the ministry. I got ...

"Akeelah and the Bee": Girl Overcomes Her Fears

Akeelah and the Bee is the story of a talented South Los Angeles girl who overcomes her fears and all other obstacles to compete at the National Spelling ...

Human Beings Are Poor at Risk Assessment

As human beings, we pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk. Yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about ...

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." ...

Bride Chooses Humorous Mantra for Her Wedding

A young bride to be was very nervous on the day before her wedding, so she went to speak with her minister. "I'm afraid I might not make it through ...

Abraham Lincoln Asks to Borrow Army

In the later months of 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was angered by General George B. McClellan's inactivity despite superiority ...

The Cure for Fear Is Exposure to Fear

Mark Batterson writes in his book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day:

I recently went to the doctor's office for an extensive battery of allergy ...

Cancer Patient Finds No Comfort in Statistics

Where do you put your hope and trust when you get a bad report from the doctor? How do you get some control of the situation? Author Phyllis Ten Elshof ...