John Killinger tells the story of a strange custom among the Jivaro tribe in Ecuador. Every night, when tribe members tuck their children into bed, they whisper in their ears the names of people th...
Do you ever wonder what you are worth? Recently we read about John Odom, a baseball player for the independent Calgary Vipers, who was traded to the Laredo Broncos for 10 maple baseball bats....
Sometimes what's on the outside doesn't always coincide with what is on the inside. During Mikhail Gorbachev's historic pre-Christmas meeting with Pope John Paul II, people were amazed to hear...
Fortune Found The sign on the window read: "BOY WANTED". Young John Simmons, though he was lazy, saw his opportunity and applied. He was quickly hired by elderly Mr. Peters. The pace was leisurely so ...
It is said that there used to be a Church of England clergyman named John Hugh Smyth-Pigott. His congregation in Clapton declared him to be the Christ. It was a compliment he readily accepted! We are ...
Former UCLA Coach John Wooden learned a lot about life from his many years as a basketball coach. He had seen Phil Woolpert win back-to-back national championships at San Francisco in 1955 and '56 and...
A few years ago as the world watched the beginning game of the World Series in San Francisco their was suddenly an interruption of the opening interview. The screen blinked and went blank. When the pr...
John began to think about how blessed he was to have such a wonderful wife, and he decided to show his appreciation. So he went out and bought a box of candy and a dozen roses. When he got home, he de...
John Cassis tells the story related to him by a customs officer at the U.S.-Canada border: "A man came through one day with his four- or five-year-old son. The customs officer asked the man if he had ...
The book, Significa, tells of Sir Henry Morgan, the famous pirate, who once won a libel suit against a man who called him-of all things--a pirate. The man was John Esquemeling, one of Morgan's former ...
What Makes a Good Leader? John W. Gardner, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, who directs a leadership study project in Washington, D.C., has pinpointed five ch...
After John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, suffered a stroke in 1846, a friend asked him about his health. Adams replied, "I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered b...
John Fawcett was the beloved minister of a small, rural church. He was called to a larger church in the city, but at the last moment he changed his mind. He simply couldn’t tear himself away ...
One of the most inspirational figures of the early church is Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Scholars believe that this faithful believer was born around A.D. 69, and may have been converted by the apo...
A strange event occurred on September 17, 1997 in Bologna, Italy. Bob Dylan sang and played for Pope John Paul II. The occasion was a religions congress for young people....
Unfortunately Edwin Booth is known primarily as the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Booth was a celebrated Shakespearean actor. ...
John Leo, writing in U.S. News and World Report, noted that twins are now more frequent. Someone said, "I guess it's because little children are afraid to come into this world alone!" Those who think ...
Everybody hails the runner who finishes first. Who pays any attention to the runner who finishes last? One reporter did at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. The runner was John Stephen Akhwari of...
Senator and presidential candidate John McCain tells of an experience he had as a POW in North Vietnam. At the infamous prison called the Hanoi Hilton, McCain had been tied up in a way to create maxim...