According to a recent news report, a Texas church received a lot of criticism for a sign that said, “Jesus Does Not Care.” ...
When our Lord said that even the hairs of your head were numbered, He probably did not mean to be taken literally. The number of hairs varies from person to person. A dark haired person has about 100,...
On here 80th birthday, a woman from Brooklyn decided to prepare her last will and testament. She went to her rabbi to make two final requests. First, she insisted on cremation. "What is your second re...
Belsky cites such studies as a 1982 one in which preschool personnel observed that children who had been in group day care since infancy seemed more anxious, aggressive and hyperactive. Another study ...
I heard an interesting comment at a meeting I attended in New York, and I made a note of it: Because Jean-Claude Killy, the world-famous skier, was three-tenths of a second faster than his closest com...
After leaving the White House, Harry Truman retired to Independence, Missouri....
The news recently carried a story about a Memphis delivery person who probably saved a customer's life. Jean Wilson had ordered pizza every day for three years. We might debate the health ramification...
Arthur Gordon in an article entitled "The Rewards of Caring," tells the story of how once, as a small boy, he was witness to a near tragedy. At the beach, a woman stepped off a sandbar into deep, swif...
Maurice Stokes was voted into the basketball Hall of Fame in 2004, 30 years after his death. Stokes’ promising career was cut short when he was paralyzed during the final game of the 1958 season......
Socrates wrote: "Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim: 'Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of yo...
A Reader's Digest article, "Hard Truths About Day Care," concludes: "What the very young want, and urgently need, child-development experts agree, is not education or socialization, but the affection ...
"The church is the most complex of all human organizations," says Ed Dayton of World Vision. "It's what we call 'goal-conflicted.' One goal is to send people forth, and another is to care for them. Pe...
Martin was a slow worker and found it difficult to hold down a job. After a visit to the job center he was offered work at the local Zoo. When he arrived for his first day, the keeper aware of his rep...
Dave Barry said that the solution to the health care crisis was this: "Medical science should stop coming out with new disorders. We already have plenty of disorders, but every time you open a newspap...
Life expectancy in America has increased from 41 years at the beginning of the 20th century to 77 in 2000; we live almost twice as long as we did a century ago. And both longevity and health a...
The name of Curtis G. Lloyd is famous in botanical and pharmaceutical circles. The Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, is named for him and his brother. He is buried in his hometown of Crittenden, Kent...
Barbara Brown Taylor writes, "When I was seven, my family moved to a new town, and the Methodist pastor came to call. Before my parents could trap him in the living room I took him on a tour of the ya...
The story appeared in the January 29, 2003, edition of The Washington Post. Titled “Picabo’s Problem,” it is a story about the well-known Olympic gold medallist, Picabo Street. The article notes that ...
A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police. Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earl...
A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police. Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home ear...