Students' Plan to Steal Final Exam Goes Wrong

Finals are finishing up at schools across the country, and for one University of Kentucky student, the stress of a statistics exam was enough to get him ...

Newlywed Couple Has First Dance in the Midst of a Traffic Jam

It's a common wedding scenario: ceremony takes place in one location, guests and wedding party hop in their cars and take a quick trip to the reception ...

A Waiting Game Gone Wrong

Long-distance online dating can be rough—just ask Alexander Pieter Cirk, who lives in Holland but had fallen for a Chinese woman he'd met online. ...

'Waiting Expert' Shares What Makes Waiting Difficult

In a New York Times article, journalist Alex Stone tells the story of how executives at a Houston airport faced and then solved a cascade of passenger ...

Unsolved Mystery on Easter Island

Do mysteries ever just drive you crazy? It's even worse when they happen in real life. Developments have arisen in the swirl of conspiracies surrounding ...

When God Makes You Wait

In his book It Happens After Prayer, Pastor H. B. Charles Jr. provides the following helpful illustration of why God often makes us wait for the answer ...

Study of How Long We'll Wait

When Timex (the watch company) asked people how long they would wait before taking action in a wide variety of situations, researchers discovered that ...

The Benefits of Ignoring Notifications

How many times do you check Twitter? What about Facebook? Don't forget Instagram. Like Pavlov's dog we are being trained with beeps, buzzes, and ...

Research Shows Gratitude Reduces Impatience

You've probably heard the humorous prayer of the impatient person: "Lord, please give me patience—right now!" Most of us struggle ...

Lessons from Apple Trees About Waiting on God

Pastor Keith Mannes of Highland Church, McBain, Michigan writes:

My wife's aunt Gladys has always had a little apple orchard at her home. But this ...