Good Deeds Correlated with Good Health

Stephen G. Post, professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently headed a comprehensive study of altruism where ...

Christian Students More Willing to Help Katrina Victims

In 2006, the number of college students on spring break sent by the United Way and MTV as volunteers to help people rebuild their homes following Hurricane ...

Passengers Trade First Class Seats with Soldiers

On a flight from Atlanta to Chicago in July 2004, nine U.S. soldiers—home from Iraq on a two-week leave—were among the passengers. Before ...

John Maxwell on Creating a Legacy

If you are successful, it becomes possible for you to leave an inheritance for others. But if you desire to create a legacy, then you need to leave something ...

Michael Phelps Gave Teammate a Chance for Glory

Michael Phelps had already won five gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics. He seemed certain to secure one more in the 4 x 400 medley relay. Phelp's ...

Medical Pioneer Gives Credit to God

Katherine Hsu pioneered tuberculosis-prevention strategies now replicated around the world.

Born in 1914 in Fuzhou, South China, Hsu counts herself fortunate ...

Japanese Ambassador Saves Jews from Gestapo

As a boy, Chiune Sugihara dreamed of becoming Japan's ambassador to Russia. By the 1930s, as ambassador to Lithuania, he was a step away from fulfilling ...

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 ...

Volunteering Seniors Live Longer

Alice Chaffin had received hundreds of thank-you notes for her work as a volunteer. But when the 87-year-old brought a hand-knitted shawl to a disabled ...

Sammy Sosa's Unselfishness

On August 11, 2002, the Chicago Cubs were at Coors Field playing the Colorado Rockies. Although the Cubbies had no chance of making the playoffs, their ...