Stranger Comforts Grief-stricken Parents

Two teenagers were killed in a car accident in our small town. Since they were best friends, their parents had a joint wake and funeral service. Over ...

High School Football Player Scores Touchdown of the Year

Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly called it the "Play of the Year." A local newspaper called it "the touchdown heard around the ...

Actor Jim Carrey on Hidden Pain

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey said: "If we all acted the way we really felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing." ...

Classmate Saves Schoolboy from Embarrassment

The story is told of a certain 9-year-old who is sitting at his desk in school when all of a sudden there is a puddle between his feet, and the front ...

Olympian's Kindness Earns Medal

The rarest medal in the Olympics wasn't created from gold, but a bolt.

The story begins on a cold, winter afternoon in Innsbruck at the 1964 Olympic ...

Loving People of Every Race

Author Ruth Senter writes:

Life sometimes has a way of showing us ourselves more clearly. September 11th, 2001 was such a time for me.

On Monday, my husband ...

Christ Suffered for Us

Our son coughed a little during one Saturday night. At church the next day he started running a fever, and as his temperature went up he started having ...

Touching the Hurting

Len Sweet in Postmodern Pilgrims recounts a letter a physician wrote to a church-related magazine:

Today I visited an eight-year-old girl dying of cancer. ...

Caring for the Hurting

Patricia L. Miller, a former hospital staff person, writes:

While at work in the emergency room, I learned to stop crying at the pain around me. Each day ...

Jesus Understands Suffering

When Detroit sportswriter Mitch Albom heard his favorite college professor, whom he hadn't seen in 20 years, was dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, ...