Religiosity is on the decline in the U.S. and atheism is on the rise, according to a new worldwide poll, the Religion News Service reports. The poll, called “The Global...

What if we held weather forecasters responsible for their errant predictions? Human fallibility as well as the limitations of geophysical science were set aside in a 13-month...

In the summer of 1994, as the frenzy of Rwanda’s 100-day genocide neared its end, a number of the Interahamwe (the pro-Hutu youth militia responsible for most of the estimated...

In 1941, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was sent to a small US-occupied island in the Philippines with orders to do all he could to hamper enemy attacks on the island. He...

Nearly 90 years ago in the dry, hardscrabble land of West Texas was a sheep ranch owned by a man named Ira Yates. He couldn’t make enough money from his ranching operation...

In May, 2004, Ted, an older man came to the Antiques Roadshow, bringing an old blanket, which his grandmother had said was given to her foster father by none other than...

[By the time] he was 46, Oscar Hammerstein had worked with 30 different composers. Nothing took off. There was no successful song. It was a despairing, dispiriting time...

Old saying: “A big shot is only a little shot who kept shooting.” —John R. Noe, Peak Performance Principles for High Achievers (Berkley Books, NY: 1984, p. 111).  

A church dismissed its pastor because he kept telling them they were going to hell. Surprisingly, though, the man they called to be their new pastor also told them they...