Family Sacrifices Cable TV to Support Church

Pastor and author Bob Russell writes:

Jackie Nelson gave a moving testimony years ago that I've often repeated. Jackie said, "I am a single mother ...

AIDS Patient Sees Jesus in Caregiver

It had been a trying week at our Love & Action office. At five o'clock on a Friday, I was looking forward to having a quiet dinner with friends. ...

Japanese Ambassador Saves Jews from Gestapo

As a boy, Chiune Sugihara dreamed of becoming Japan's ambassador to Russia. By the 1930s, as ambassador to Lithuania, he was a step away from fulfilling ...

Drafted to Be God's Agents

According to the book No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, the first peacetime draft occurred October 29, 1940. President Franklin Roosevelt and ...

"The Lord of the Rings": The Least Becomes Greatest

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Christian author J. R. R. Tolkien portrays the classic conflict between good and evil set in a mythical ...

"Men in Black": Worth the Sacrifice

Men in Black is a comedy about two special agents who work for Men in Black, an underground agency created to protect earth from tyrant extraterrestrials. ...

Bowling Acquaintance Donates Kidney

In Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam writes:

Before October 29, 1997, John Lambert and Andy Boschma knew each other only through their local bowling league ...

Preacher Backs Up Words with Action

James Forbes, senior minister of Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York, says:

I remember when I was preaching about South African apartheid. I was confronting ...

"A Beautiful Mind": Loving the Unlovable

The movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician whose career and life were crippled by schizophrenia. Nash taught at ...

"Mulan": Child's Sacrifice for Father

Mulan is a Disney animation based on an ancient Chinese legend in which a girl becomes a national hero through daring acts of self-sacrifice and courage. ...