Making Light of Poison

Fallon, Nevada, is the arsenic capital of America. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Environmental Protection Agency found that Fallon's water ...

Bono on Sin

In 1982, U2 singer Bono told journalist Terry Mattingly:

I don't believe in preaching at people. The truth is that we are all sinners. I always include ...

Empty Promises

A "Bonehead of the Day" e-mail reported on a newfangled toy recently released for distribution:

A U.S. company has an action figure called Invisible ...

Sin Isn't Politically Correct

Four congregation members with concerned faces met in their pastor's office. With earnest and imploring eyes, they presented him with a clipboard ...

Mutiny and Redemption on the "Bounty"

On April 28, 1789, Lieutenant William Bligh, commander of the H.M.S. Bounty, was awakened by men who "seizing me, tied my hands with a cord and threatened ...

Wandering from God's House

On February 24, 2001, a one-year old Canadian girl named Erika somehow wandered out of her mother's bed and house and spent the entire night in the ...

Wrong Way Regals: Instinct without Direction

Roy Regals was a center for the University of California in 1929 when they went up against Georgia Tech at the Rose Bowl. The game was scoreless when ...

"The Straight Story": Yearning for Reconciliation

The movie The Straight Story is based on a true story and chronicles the pilgrimage of a 73 year-old man to mend a broken relationship with his brother, ...

Why Sin Tastes Good

Leann Birch, a developmental psychologist at Penn State University, ran an experiment in which she took a large group of kids and fed them a big lunch. ...

Healing from Sin

Last summer I had an encounter with masked men bearing scalpels. A surgeon operated on my foot, and my life was never in danger. Yet the horizontal recovery ...