The Hoarder Next Door

The suite next to our condo is a small studio. The neighbors who lived there when we moved in fit the profile: young, professional, and private. That's ...

Is Peace the Absence of People?

While elaborating on loving one's neighbor, apologist Michael Ramsden spoke of a colleague who while in Asia asked his audience to close their eyes and ...

Joke about Holding Onto Grudges

An old joke. A letter to a neighbor reads:

Dear Frank. We've been neighbors for six tumultuous years. When you borrowed my tiller, you returned it ...

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

When was the last time you had any interaction with your neighbors? Yesterday, a week, a month, a year? How about never? Well according to a recent survey ...

Random Acts of Paying Parking Tickets

Sometimes life kicks you when you're down—and sometimes someone comes along to lift you up. That's what happened to an unidentified woman ...

The Death of the Third Place

Deane Barker, writing for the popular BoingBoing site, laments the death of America's "third places." These are the gathering spots, neither ...

I Want To Use a Lifeline

The town of Plains, Kansas (population: 1150), lost their only supermarket in 2001. Now they are fighting to get one back for the town's survival. ...

80 Percent of Our Words Are Shared with Five People

According to a study published in Scientific American, we each speak an average of 16,000 words per day. We like to imagine ourselves conversing with ...

Faith Helped Woman Confront Terrorists

In May of 2013 in Woolwich, England, two Islamic extremists attacked a British soldier and hacked him to death with a machete. It was a gruesome crime ...

Woman Delivers Water to Drought Victims

The town of East Porterville may be the hardest-hit place in California's punishing drought. Of its 7,300 people, almost 1,000 have no running water. ...