Olympian's Kindness Earns Medal

The rarest medal in the Olympics wasn't created from gold, but a bolt.

The story begins on a cold, winter afternoon in Innsbruck at the 1964 Olympic ...

Everyday Compassion

A Chicago-based newspaper, StreetWise, is sold by homeless people, who collect a portion of the proceeds. One day as I walked to work, I passed a StreetWise ...

John Wesley's Wholehearted Generosity

John Wesley (1703-1791) knew plenty about economic uncertainty. In his day, Britain experienced rapid urbanization and the beginnings of industrialization. ...

Faking Generosity

A. A. Milne (author of the Winnie the Pooh books) wrote a seasonal piece entitled, "A Hint for Next Christmas." He tells of a friend named William ...

Tithe Tied Up in Brooms

A church member stopped the pastor and angrily complained that the church had purchased five new brooms—an expenditure that he thought was completely ...

"Pay It Forward": Exponential Kindness

Pay It Forward is a movie about a seventh grader's ingenious plan to make a difference in the world. On the first day of school, Trevor McKinney (played ...

"It's a Wonderful Life": Supportive Fellowship

The movie It's a Wonderful Life celebrates one man's extraordinary generosity. George Bailey, the proprietor of a building and loan institution, ...

Life Is Giving, Not Getting

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Be Generous in Giving

Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. ...

Money Can Complicate Faith

Warren Bailey died July 14, 2000, at age 88. He had no family. And he wasn't much of a church-going man. To the best of anybody's recollection ...