Godly Decisions Determine our Destiny

In 1943, a young pastor was offered the opportunity to take over a popular Gospel Radio program called Songs in the Night. Since the cost of keeping the ...

We Give Up Our New Year's Resolution as Early as Mid-January

In a survey conducted by NPR and The Marist Poll last November, almost half of all American adults planned to make New Year’s resolutions. Leading ...

Skier Falls through Ice, But Firefighters Were Prepared

In December 2018, all of the approximately 400 St. Paul firefighters trained for ice rescues. The department’s firefighters usually respond to a ...

Gut Health Instrumental in Shaping Thought Patterns

Have you made a gut decision? Or have you experienced a gut check moment? Have you ever made a decision going with your gut? According to reporting from ...

The Mystery of Guidance

Wendell Berry writes in his book “Jayber Crow”:

Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of ...

The Quiet Work of God's Guidance

In his novel Jayber Crow, the Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry has his character Jayber talk about the quiet work of God's guidance in our ...

New Year's Resolutions Help Sharpen Our Focus

In his book A Journey to Bethlehem, Jason Soroski offers the following definitions of a resolution:

Resolution. Webster defines the word as being "marked ...

Driver Leads Police in a Chase Because of His 'Bucket List'

"The world is peppered with people who can coax small seeds of inspiration into richly flowering ideas that put humankind on a better path. And then ...

When Life Moves From 'Plan A' to 'Plan B'

A special report on This American Life follows the lives of several people currently living what they unequivocally call "Plan B." Host Ira ...

Apps Track How We Fail to Keep New Year's Resolutions

Based on data from the online grocer FreshDirect, many customers fail to keep their New Year's Resolutions. The retailer reported that customers' ...