A Test of Leadership

This is one of the tests of leadership: that you recognize what affects people, not what should affect people.

Dwight L. Moody's Sunday School Teacher

Edward Kimball is probably not known to you. He lived over a hundred years ago. He was a Sunday school teacher in Boston, where a young teenager became ...

Dad Is a Powerful Word

In Ramsey Count, Minnesota, ninth and tenth graders were interviewed recently about their dads. They were asked this question: "What comes to mind ...

Being Filled and Feeling Empty

Lee Atwater, former Republican Party chairman, said this before he died: "(It’s all) about acquiring: wealth, power, and prestige. I know. ...

Omnipotent Media

Speaking to a group of broadcasters, Ted [Turner] described who God really was: "Delegates to the United Nations are not as important as the people ...

Toxic Waste

TV is not just a vast wasteland; it is a toxic-waste dump. The problem isn't that nothing is there; that would be bad enough. The problem is that ...

Packaged Truth

Were he still broadcasting, Walter Cronkite might end his newscast with "and that's the way we say it is" to better represent the tenor ...

Celebrated Frauds

So, your mom's got a Betty Crocker cookbook. So do 55 million others. But did you know Betty never existed? The people at Gold Medal flour invented ...

A Little Lower than the Angels

Virtually every one of us in this room is the result of an educational system that has drip by drip, like dropping water on stone, made an impression ...

Every Day is Mother's Day

Leo Tolstoy said:

Women who fulfill their vocation hold power even over powerful men; such women mold public opinion and prepare future generations. And ...