"Seabiscuit": A Banged Up Life Is Worth Saving

One of the main characters in the movie Seabiscuit is a broken-down, unemployed cowboy named Tom Smith. Millionaire Charles Howard, who is about to engage ...

Beethoven Writes Great Music Though Deaf

Widely regarded as the greatest composer ever, Beethoven began losing his hearing at age 31 and was completely deaf 16 years later.

As he became more and ...

"Gattaca": Science's Attempt to Perfect Humanity

Gattaca, with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, is a futuristic drama about the possible consequences of genetic engineering. A husband and wife have their ...

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 ...

A Plan for Everyone

Simon Birch (a movie based on the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving) is the story of a 12-year-old boy named Simon Birch who, despite his physical ...

An Unexpected Winner

Andrew Dooyema, a 17-year-old senior at Luverne High School in Minnesota, is no star athlete, high academic achiever, or model of fashion. But that didn't ...

God's Help with Challenges

Christian author and speaker Joni Eareckson Tada writes:

I'm a quadriplegic, yet I can drive a van (my hand is secured to a big joystick so I can steer, ...

Teams at Their Best

In the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (2-7-99), Larry Pillow writes:

Like every graduating class in Arkansas, the 1997 graduating class of Witts Springs, Arkansas, ...

Love Despite the Odds

In 1995, Christopher Reeve, the "Superman" actor, fell from a horse in a riding accident that severed his spinal cord and paralyzed him from ...

Calling Forth Compassion

In 1975 a child named Raymond Dunn, Jr. was born in New York State. The Associated Press reports that at his birth, a skull fracture and oxygen deprivation ...