Colombian Rebels Invited to Come Home

NPR's radio show "This American Life" ran an interesting segment about a marketing executive from Colombia named Jose Miguel Sokoloff. The ...

A White Woman Learns to Cry 'Black Tears'

Brenda Salter McNeil tells the story of a diverse group of Christians who traveled across the United States visiting some of the places known for their ...

Einstein's Dream Led to His Brilliance

In 1905 Albert Einstein stunned the world with his revolutionary equation, E = mc2. Einstein wrote hundreds of papers over the course of his career. But ...

New Year's Celebrations from Around the World

How do you prepare for the New Year? Here are some interesting New Year's traditions from around the globe:

• In Siberia it is tradition to dive into a frozen lake while holding a tree trunk, which is placed underneath the ice.

Store Hires 'Christmas Light Untangler'

In case you're stressed about getting ready for Christmas—with all that shopping, cleaning, and getting those Christmas decorations up—at ...

The Runaway Bus Driver Who Made History

On Friday March 28, 1947, at 6:55 A.M., Bronx bus driver William Cimillo got into his bus to start his daily route. But then something happened. He decided ...

The Rise in End-of-the-World Films

The end is near, and it's coming to a theater near you, or right into your own living room. As of this writing, over 250 end-of-the-world movies have ...

Six Ways Jesus' Birth Changed the World

Children. In the ancient world children were routinely left to die of exposure, particularly if they were girls. Jesus' treatment of and teachings about ...

Mary and Joseph on Holmes Rahe Stress Scale

The Holmes Rahe scale assigns points to various life stressors. These points are called LCUs or a life change units. Dr. Holmes and Dr. Rahe concluded ...

Tim Keller: Why Christmas Matters

If Jesus didn't come, the story of Christmas is one more moral paradigm to crush you. If Jesus didn't come, I wouldn't want to be anywhere around these ...