A Not-So-Golden Escape

The California Highway Patrol encountered a sparkly surprise during a recent traffic stop: a suspect covered in gold spray paint. While off-duty, an officer ...

Diseased and Oblivious

A study shows that nearly 30 percent of Americans who have diabetes don't know that they have it. This disease of course, if left untreated, can carry ...

Password Protected?

We live in a password protected world, where our most important data, secrets, even money, are locked behind a "secure" password. But with recent ...

Lego Pieces Rise from the Ocean's Bottom

A beach near Perranporth, Cornwall (in Great Britain) is unlike any other stretch of coast in the world. Not for its breakers or sand, but for what washes ...

Lego Pieces Wash Up from the Deep Sea

A beach near Perranporth, Cornwall (in Great Britain) is unlike any other stretch of coast in the world. Not for its breakers or sand, but for what washes ...

Police Captain Who Lived Double Life

In his novel Too Late the Phalarope, the South African writer Alan Paton described a man with a dark sexual secret, whose false self led to public disgrace ...

Man Lives with a Knife Lodged in His Skull

Max Lucado tells the following story:

A Chinese man named Li Fuyan had tried every treatment imaginable to ease his throbbing headaches. Nothing helped. ...

Small Child Teaches a Lesson on Confessing Sin

Every year at our Ash Wednesday service people have an opportunity to write their sins on a piece of paper, fold the paper, and then pin it onto a wooden ...

Psychiatrist Identifies the "Gauntlet of Silence" Among Men

In his book Invisible Men, Dr. Michael E. Addis tells the story about meeting a middle-aged man named Patrick. Although by all accounts Patrick was an ...

Two Diverse Sources Agree on the Power of Confession

Two diverse sources—ancient Christian monasticism and modern psychology—agree on at least one thing: keeping dark secrets can destroy us, ...