Henry David Thoreau: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however...

Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, into an Orthodox Jewish family living in the Jewish Brownsville section of Brooklyn. His father died a year later. At age 6,...

In a visit to Cambodia in 1994, just after the tragic “killing fields” experiences of the Khmer people, Advancing Native Mission’s co-president, Bo Barredo, was puzzled...

Glenn Cunningham was an American distance runner, considered by many the greatest American miler of all time. He was on the 1932 and 1936 Olympic teams and was named the...

My friend, Wilfred Kent, tells about a time back in the 1940s, when he was a boy in a small town in western Canada. There was an eccentric man who lived there (many towns...

Some years ago, while our family was vacationing in northern Minnesota, we decided to visit a small county fair near the town of Babbitt. There weren’t many people...

Arthur Burns was a Washington power broker who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve, as ambassador to West Germany, and in other prominent positions from the 1960s...

I love the story about the woman who was confiding to her next-door neighbor about her husband: “George is driving me crazy with his obsession with fishing. Every day after...

In the courtyard of a quaint little church in a French village stood a beautiful marble statue of Jesus with his hands outstretched. One day during WWII a bomb struck too...