There is a story, believed to be true, about Abraham Lincoln, just before the close of the Civil War. Landowners in the Deep South were cutting their losses, liquidating their slaves before slavery was banned, and President Lincoln came upon a slave auction in...

Michael Hargrove tells about a scene at an airport that literally changed his life. He was picking up a friend. He noticed a man coming toward him carrying two light bags. The man stopped right next to Hargrove to greet his family. The man motioned to his youngest son...

King Herod had married his brother's wife, Herodias, viola!ng the Mosaic Law. John the Bap!st showed courage in condemning the king in public and lost his head for it. The Pharisees were se&ng a trap for Jesus, by asking whether he agreed with his cousin John on...

  .A few years back, a British couple held the Guinness world record for the longest marriage. Percy and Florence Arrowsmith married on June 1, 1925 and celebrated their 80th anniversary on June 1, 2005. "I think we're very blessed," Florence, 100, told the BBC....

  In the beautiful but desolate mountains of southeastern Utah, a twenty-seven year-old mountain climber named Aron Ralston, made a desperate decision. An avid out-doors man, Aron was rock-climbing one day when his right arm became trapped under a boulder, a...

Dick Gregory, a black comedian and ac!vist, once told about taking his oldest son to Mexico to a place where there was no electricity. He said they lived in a hut. He was in the hut one night when his son ran in and said, "Dad, Dad come here. I'm scared. I want to...