Thankful for the Fleas

The barracks where Corrie ten Boom and her sister, Betsy, were kept in the Nazi concentration camp, Ravensbruck, were terribly overcrowded and flea-infested. ...

Explorers Named Famous Geyser for its Predictability

On a September afternoon in 1870, a party of nine explorers, eight army escorts, and two cooks made its way by horseback along the Firehole River in an ...

HBO Host John Oliver Struggles with Tragedy and God's Will

John Oliver, the host of the satirical news show, HBO's Last Week Tonight, was interviewed by Terri Gross on Fresh Air. Gross asked, "Did you ...

Someone's Eyes Are Always on You

In 1949, an American company released the first commercially available CCTV system. Two years later, in 1951, Kodak introduced its Brownie portable movie ...

Website Architect Turns to Prayer in Overwhelming Challenge

On his website, Craig Larson shares the following story about the power of prayer:

Last night a woman in our church told how God had just given her success ...

Two NFL Players are a Contrast in Doubt and Faith

Aaron Rodgers, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, was raised in an evangelical Christian household. Soon after winning the Super Bowl in 2011, Rodgers ...

The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Nothing

The defining moment of Stanislav Petrov's life was the moment he decided to do nothing.

The Russian military duty officer was just a few hours into his ...

Pilots Say Turbulence Feels Worse than it is

Patrick Smith, a commercial airline pilot who flies Boeing 757 and 767, has noticed that flyers' number one anxiety is turbulence. So much about it seems ...

Police Officer Helps Four-Year-Old Inspect Home for 'Monsters'

Soon after moving into a new home in Colorado with her family, four-year-old Sidney Fahrenbruch decided that the new house needed to pass one additional ...

We Have Entered the New Age of Anxiety

This past winter (2017), Sarah Fader, a 37-year-old social media consultant in Brooklyn who has generalized anxiety disorder, texted a friend in Oregon ...