Displaced Ruler a Prisoner of His Own Appetite

Thomas Costain's book The Three Edwards describes the life of Raynald III, a 14th-century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald ...

Crocodile Hunter Killed by Unlikely Animal

Steve Irwin, known around the world as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed on September 4, 2006, while filming wildlife along the Great Barrier ...

Pepsi Demonstrates Integrity

Who says there's no integrity in the business world? In the spring of 2006, an administrative assistant at Coca Cola's Atlanta headquarters left ...

Donald Miller Quits Chewing Tobacco

Donald Miller writes in his book Searching For God Knows What:

Several years ago, I chewed tobacco: Long-cut Wintergreen Skoal. I know, I know, it was ...

Humans Prefer to Sin Unobserved

Dallas Willard writes about a 2-and-a-half-year-old girl in her backyard who one day discovered the secret to making mud (which she called "warm ...

Children Who Can Delay Gratification Become More Successful

Around 1970, Walter Mischel launched a classic experiment. He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the ...

Intercessory Prayer for a Fearful Friend

Arlyn Lawrence writes in "The Other Great Commission?":

Carrie was a casual acquaintance from church—an outgoing person with a quick smile ...

Man's Coffin Designed for Pornography

A Russian man named Vladimir Villisov specially designed his own coffin to accommodate his vast collection of pornography. "The girls in those magazines ...

Corpse Flower's Empty Promises

What flower has been likened to "3-day-old road-kill," "rotting flesh," and "fish gone bad"? The answer is the corpse flower. ...

"The Truman Show": Facing the Real World

In The Truman Show, Truman (Jim Carrey) isn't aware that, since birth, he has been the star of the ultimate TV reality show. He doesn't know he lives ...