Inspired by Facebook Post, Woman Donates Kidney to Stranger

Martha Olsen has been a mail carrier for nineteen years. But her greatest delivery might have been good news to a family in need. An avid marathoner, ...

NBA’s Cookie Mom Delights with Gifts of Love

For a growing number of NBA players, the postgame highlight of any road trip across the Midwest isn’t a postgame restaurant or bar. It’s a ...

A Loving Witness in the Muslim World

In the days leading up to 9-11, fighting in Afghanistan between local groups and then the Taliban resulted in thousands of refugees pouring down into ...

A Hiker near Death in a Snowstorm Saved by a Stranger

Nancy Abell tried to get Katharina Groene to turn back. But with 150 miles to go on her solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail, Groene wanted to see ...

Tennessee Teens Blanket Their School with Notes of Encouragement

Anyone who's been through it knows that middle school can be tough. At Harriman Middle School in Tennessee, a group of students took it upon themselves ...

A Son Learns About Faith Watching His Father Die

Writer David Briggs offers a moving meditation on what he learned from his father's example. David's father was an ordinary man who lived an ordinary ...

Zoo Admission Increasing to Offset Cost of Living for Humans and Animals

Officials at the Denver Zoo submitted a proposal to the local city council to approve an increase in admission costs, a measure that hadn't been enacted ...

Holocaust Prisoners Survived by Mutual Self-Sacrifice

In 1943, 230 women were arrested as members of the French Resistance and sent to Birkenau. Only 49 survived, but this in itself is remarkable. These women ...

Friend's Dedication Lands Cancer Patient on TV Sitcom

In this life, there are friends … and then then are friends.

In May 2009, Dillon Hill's best-friend-since-fourth-grade Chris Betancourt got a diagnosis ...

Are We Alone in the Dark?

In his latest book, John Ortberg writes about our need to meaningfully connect with others:

In 2015, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley ...