Neighbor Sues Girls over Act of Kindness

Taylor Ostergaard and Linsey Zellitti wanted to bless their neighbors and so the two teenage girls decided to bake cookies for their neighbors rather ...

Parents Forgive Daughter's Killers

Amy Biehl died a violent death. In 1993, the 26-year-old white Fulbright scholar was registering black voters for South Africa's first free election, ...

Jack Benny Didn't Deserve Arthritis

Author and professor Haddon Robinson observes:

Life is unjust. Upon accepting an award, the late Jack Benny once remarked, "I really don't deserve ...

Former Slave's Story Ends with Freedom

In her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs wrote these words about her years of slavery: "Only by experience can any one realize ...

Boxer Refuses to Be Consumed by Bitterness

On June 17, 1966, two black men strode into the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, and shot three people to death. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, ...

Japan Searches for Atonement

In two full pages of advertisement, the Japanese government declared its desire to right wrongs committed in World War II. The Asian Women's Fund, ...

William Wilberforce's Long Fight Against Slavery

In the middle of the eighteenth century, Christians became increasingly concerned about the slave trade. They amassed information on the inhumane treatment ...

When Tolerance Is a Vice

Tolerance is one of today's most coveted virtues. But there are at least three different kinds of tolerance.

First, there is legal tolerance: fighting ...

Writer Randy Alcorn on Giving

In The Law Of Rewards, Randy Alcorn writes:

In 1990 I was a pastor on the board of a pregnancy resource center. After searching the Scriptures and praying, ...

God Suffered as You Suffer

Timothy Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, writes:

Christianity does not so much offer solutions to the problems of suffering, ...