"My Big Fat Greek Wedding": A Wife's Influence

Maria Portokalos assures her daughter, Toula, that she can change her husband's mind about allowing Toula to go to college and leave the family business: ...

Humorous Things My Mother Taught Me

My mother taught me about the food groups: "If you put one foot outside that door, you're not getting any homemade bread."

My mother taught ...

Seeing Sin for What It Is

According to a radio report, a middle school in Oregon faced a unique problem. A number of girls began to use lipstick and put it on in the bathroom. ...

Garbling the Lord's Prayer

My Sunday school class of youngsters had some problems repeating the Lord's Prayer, but they didn't lack in imagination. One child prayed, "Our ...

Standing at Judgment

Our student body settled down for another session of daydreaming as our college president launched into one of his weekly Monday morning messages. Though ...

Biting Your Tongue

It was his first day on the job. He was a new clerk in the green goods department of a super market. A lady came up to him and said she wanted to buy ...

Final Exam

Legend has it that a certain college philosophy prof asked one question on his final exam. He picked up a chair, put it on his desk, and wrote on the ...

Women and Men

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held.

What Men ...

A Pessimistic Compliment

Donn Moomaw is sort of a larger-than-life person, so he has a lot of larger-than-life stories that are really funny. This is true. When he was preaching ...

Paying for Silence

It was a hectic day of running errands with my wife and son. As if the stress weren't enough, four-year-old Christopher insisted on asking questions ...