Frederick Douglass' Mother's Daily Sacrifice

Frederick Douglass grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century. He escaped and became one of the century's leading abolitionists, ...

"Ruby Bridges": Confronting Enemies with Courage

Ruby Bridges is the true story of the 6-year-old black girl who became the first person of color in the U.S., by federal law, to attend an all-white school ...

"A Christmas Story": Mom Shows Mercy to Naughty Son

A Christmas Story is a movie about the many challenges of a boy named Ralphie. All adults, including Santa Claus, seem to conspire against Ralphie's ...

Playing Bad Hands

President Dwight Eisenhower described his mother as a smart and saintly lady. "Often in this job I've wished I could consult her. But she is ...

Mother Brings Peace During Crisis

Cindy Holmes is a writer and pediatric nurse in Houston, Texas. She wrote an article about a mother and child she got to know at the hospital who were ...

Touching the Hurting

Len Sweet in Postmodern Pilgrims recounts a letter a physician wrote to a church-related magazine:

Today I visited an eight-year-old girl dying of cancer. ...

Augustine's Mother Intercedes

The church father Augustine writes of the important role played by his mother's faithful intercession for him during his years of waywardness:

My mother ...

No Exemplary Families

In Like Dew Your Youth, Eugene H. Peterson writes:

A search of Scripture turns up one rather surprising truth: there are no exemplary families. Not a single ...

Dr. Benjamin Carson's Mother

Dr. Benjamin Carson, renowned surgeon at Johns Hopkins, tells a moving story about his mother. Mrs. Carson insisted that Ben and his brother Curtis write ...

Sacrificial Love

On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines flight 225 crashed just after taking off from the Detroit airport, killing 155 people. One survived: a four-year-old ...