By Brooke Luby I’ll never forget the story a friend of mine told me. His wife, who is from a foreign country, was playing a game of Pictionary with him and his family. She came...
Read More →By Jeff Goins, Editor In the do-gooder flick Pay It Forward, Trevor McKenney asks his teacher after receiving an unusual homework assignment, “Are you saying you’ll flunk us if we don’t change the world?” To...
Read More →By George Elerick Someone once said, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Gehenna (the Aramaic word used in the New Testament used for “hell”) was this trash heap outside of Jerusalem where...
Read More →By Carole Turner A Wounded Daughter is an inspiring story, one of valleys and peeks, bad choices and victories,real life trial and tribulations and beautiful redemption. As someone who participates in an outreach to strip...
Read More →By Caitlin Woodward It was your average small-town bar. Inviting and friendly atmosphere. The evening was welcoming – its usual crowd and the stage was set to rock… A couple years ago I had met...
Read More →By Dustin Metcalf If you are half way sane, afraid to step near the edge of a cliff, or need to live by a plan then it would probably be best if you stopped reading...
Read More →By Joshua Cody Up in the Air bills itself as “the story of a man ready to make a connection,” and the plot is straightforward and unsophisticated. If you’re not familiar, I’ll prime you: Ryan...
Read More →By Carole Turner I heard about the supposed pact that Haiti made with the devil from Twitter when it lit up a firestorm of tweets about Pat Robertson’s remarks blaming the earthquake that has devastated...
Read More →By Tim Chermak Animated text scrolling across movie screens often read, “Based on a true story…” as if it mattered. Western culture, influenced heavily by the Athenian philosopher Aristotle, has taught us to become obsessive...
Read More →By Jamie Finch This year, July brought a chill. And uncertainty. The weather, uncertain of itself. Me, uncertain of my heart. Last year, July had heat. Bone-frying, soul-simmering. The kind that has a character of...
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