Hidden, Humble Servants

In The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton comments that good people are usually hidden. I'm convinced he's right.

What convinced me was a woman ...

Money Manager's Priorities Shift

During the 13 years Peter Lynch was the manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, Magellan was the top-ranked general equity fund. Time called Lynch the ...

Too Busy to Be Rescued

A friend said mournfully the other day that he'd lived his life like the Professor on "Gilligan's Island." While he found time to fashion ...

Football Grunts Honored for Humble Service

"If you work hard, good things will happen…to someone else."

So goes the motto of the All-Joes Team. Each year USA Today honors overlooked and ...

Working without Earthly Reward

The designer of the famous yellow smiley face received a mere $45 for his work. Harvey Ball, a Massachusetts commercial artist, created the simple yellow ...

Debt-Ridden Couple Learns to Give First to God

In a sermon on giving, Dave Ferguson, pastor of Community Christian Church in Naperville, Illinois, read this letter from Jeff and Julie, who attend the ...

Commitment Means Work

Though skeptical of his teenage son's newfound determination to build bulging muscles, one father followed his teenager to the store's weight-lifting ...

Retirees' Needs

Ralph Warner, author of Get a Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well, urges that people looking toward retirement think about more than financial ...

"Antz": Search for Significance

In an early scene from the movie Antz, the camera pans down from a far away view of a big city to blades of grass to below the grass and into a room. ...

Tom Hanks Encourages Fellow Actor

Frank Darabont, director of The Green Mile, reflects on Tom Hanks' selfless commitment to helping rising actor Michael Duncan achieve his best:

Fifteen, ...