The story is told that George Bernard Shaw sent Winston Churchill a couple of tickets for the opening night of one of his plays. Shaw enclosed a little note with the tickets, and here's what the note said. It said, "Here are two tickets for the [...]

When Karen Muller, filmmaker and author, was in the Peace Corps from 1987 to 1989, she dug wells and built schools in a village in the Philippines. And one night, 17 members of the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the [...]

Gail Urban was browsing in a Christian bookstore one day and she discovered a shelf of reduced-priced items. Among the items was a little figurine of a man and a woman, their heads lovingly tilted toward one another. On the bottom was the [...]

We spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars each year on clothing, but have you ever wondered what the Bible says about that subject? It really is a fascinating study. In the Bible's opening story, Adam and Eve sin and what do they do? Well, [...]

It was back in 1995. Astronomer Bob Williams wanted to point the Hubble Space Telescope at a patch of sky filled with absolutely nothing remarkable. He wanted to do it for 100 hours. It was a terrible idea, his colleagues told him, and a waste of [...]

Rita McClain's spiritual journey began for her when she lived in Iowa. She grew up in the fundamentalist world of the Pentecostal church. In her 20s, she tried less doctrine in her Protestantism, and that too proved very unsatisfying to her. By the [...]

Just a few hours south of Sydney, Australia, there once stood a lighthouse along the cliffs of Cape George. Constructed in 1860, the lighthouse was supposed to safely guide ships home as they arrived from the Tasman Sea. The problem was, nobody [...]

Over 100 years ago, 1893 to be exact, the famous World Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago. And an astronomical number of people, especially in those pre-automobile days, actually came to this convention, some 21 million of them. They visited [...]

Almost 60 years ago, a young missionary named Raymond Edman staggered in from an Ecuadorian jungle, desperately ill. "He'll be dead by morning," the doctor predicted. Edman's wife dyed her wedding dress black so it would be ready for the [...]

He's been called "the man who saved the world," but you probably never heard his name. It was early in the hours of September 26, 1983. The Soviet Union's early warning systems detected an incoming missile strike from the United States. [...]