'Challenger' Engineer Still Regrets Launch that Killed Seven

NPR ran a heartbreaking interview with Robert Ebeling, an engineer who worked on the 1986 Challenger launch that resulted in the death of all seven occupants. ...

MD Describes Importance of Blood

Physician Horace Smith describes the importance of human blood:

Each drop of human blood contains over 5 million red cells … In an average lifetime, ...

Prisoners Share Stories About Their Freedom

New York magazine interviewed several former inmates and asked them to describe their first hours or day of freedom. These men had been wrongfully convicted, ...

Treating the Cause, Not the Symptom

William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura were awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. The prize recognizes their discovery in the 1970s of ...

Actor Rob Lowe on Karma

"I try to hold on to the things I believe to be good and true. Good things happen to good people. Karma is real. There is a larger, better plan for ...

Words That Have Changed Meaning Over Time

Words change meaning over time in ways that might surprise you. Here are just a few examples of words (so, preacher, take your choice) you may not have ...

A Surprise Invitation to Baseball Hall of Fame

Skye Jethani uses the following personal story to illustrate the beauty of God as a Trinity, a party of love and goodness and power:

Have you ever found ...

The Origins of 'God Helps Those Who Help Themselves'

Comedian Jay Leno once conducted a "man-on-the-street" interview by asking random people to name one of the Ten Commandments. The most common ...

You vs. Jesus in a Spiritual Marathon

Here's a creative way to illustrate the biblical view of justification by faith, which includes not only receiving forgiveness, but also receiving ...

Daughter Uses Dad's Credit Card; Adopts His Identity

Bryan Chapell writes in "Your New Identity”:

A number of you in the room are old enough to remember when you did not pay for gas at the pump. ...