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This story was told by an old priest one Sunday. It is a true story of when he served in the military. One day their drill sergeant came out...

One day, I woke early in the morning to watch the sunrise. Ah the beauty of God's creation is beyond description. As I watched, I praise...

Last spring a duck entered our backyard journeying eastward, eleven little ducklings in file behind her. It was an outrageous appearing, rea...

A rather hefty woman stood in front of me in a line of people waiting to board a charter flight for Europe. The clerk asked her the routine ...

I'm part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I'm a disciple of Jesus Chris...

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurr...

There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded ...

I have survived the Noosa triathlon and can finally move again with relative ease. Monday was a bit of a shocker with sore bits that have ne...

Look Out, Baby, I'm Your Love Man Mamie Brown, a kitchen worker and maid, adopted Les Brown and his twin brother shortly after their bir...

Unleashing the leaders around you to lead well means allowing others to lead The need to control may be one of the most destructive traits i...

"Knowing how people grow, for example, does not mean we know how to grow them. Experts in child development are no better than anyone e...

John Powell, A Professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy: Some twelve year...

Once upon a time, there was a young woman named Sarah who lived in the village below the Mountain of the Golden Footprints. She was feeling ...

Tertullian said, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." Many are the heroic stories of men and women of faith who entere...

In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger a...

In the city of Chicago, one cold, dark night, a blizzard was setting in. A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner, the people were ...

A reader has supplied this variation on the long arm of coincidence that relates Presidents John Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. Both Kennedy a...

On the evening of Feb. 2, 1943, the U.S.A.T. Dorchester, crowded with 902 servicemen, merchant seamen and civilian workers, was torpedoed by...

A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the Doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still grogg...

This is a true story. It just happened this Good Friday. It was Good Friday and you could hear a pin drop in the church. The police were lin...