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When Nate Mercereau heard about neighbors of the Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, CA) complain about the humming noise made by wind passing through the slats in the bridge he found it “remarkably musical,” and decided to build music around it. Following the bridge’s lead, he plays a melody line that…

In the foreword to Leaders Eat Last, George Flynn writes, “Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.” --Leaders Eat Last, Forward, loc 124. Colossians 3:12 (CSB) Therefore, as God’s…

In The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, Erin Meyer writes, “There’s a wise Bahamian proverb: ‘To engage in conflict, one does not need to bring a knife that cuts, but a needle that sews.’” —Jim L. Wilson The Culture Map, 218 Colossians 3:13 (CSB) bearing with…

One of the keys to a marriage’s survival is effective communication skills. Communication is not completed until the recipient receives the message intended by the sender. A woman in India has filed for divorce from her husband because his communication is being received differently than he intends.…

Nurse Sarah Calvelage is dispensing more than Meds as she treats patients in the COVID-19 ICU of her Huntsville, Alabama hospital—she is giving smiles. As you can imagine, it can be hard for patients to fight the physical effects of the disease, but that is not their only challenge. The only human interaction…

Jeff Gebhart, 47, of Kansas City has offered to pay anyone who can find him a girlfriend a bonus. She must take a survey, no word as to what is in the survey that Jeff approves. She must agree to date him exclusively for one year. And what would that recommending person receive from Jeff? $25,000 is…

One thing is certain, unless the Lord returns each one of us has death in our future. One South Korean mortuary is offering people the chance to experience a taste of what their own death might be like. The mortuary invites the public to dress in shrouds, write their last testaments, and lie in closed…

A Dallas Texas court convicted a former Dallas police officer of murder. The officer, Amber Guyger, had mistakenly entered the wrong apartment and fired her service weapon when she mistook the resident for an intruder. The victim’s brother, Brandt Jean embraced the police officer and told her, “I love…

When Mark Eklund was in junior high school, Helen Mrosla was his math teacher. One Friday she sensed that the students were frustrated with themselves and edgy with one another. To get a handle on this she asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving…

On October 2nd, 2006 at 10:25am, Charles Carl Roberts IV entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He instructed all of the adults and young boys to leave, but held the remaining ten girls hostage. Sensing what was to come, one of the girls offered…

A winter storm that stranded a group of soldiers became an opportunity for an Oklahoma community to show kindness. Hundreds of soldiers returning from holiday break were stuck at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City because the road to their base in Lawton, 80 miles away, was impassible. When…

Albert Lexie shined shoes for a living. Every Tuesday and Thursday for 32 years, he would leave home at 5:50 a.m. and make a three-bus trek to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. There, he shined the shoes of staff and visitors and donated all of his tips to the hospital’s young patients. By the…

Writing in World Magazine, Editor Marvin Olasky tries to make sense out of our current cultural situation. He says that we are essentially two nations. As one example he proposes, “We have an America of compassion toward the very young and the very old, and a United States of callousness that promotes…

Pope Francis sets a spiritual example for millions of people, but on a trip to Peru he suffered what many other people experience every day, a flat tire. While being driven into Lima from the airport, one of the tires of the car that was taking the Pope into the city began losing air. The motorcade came…

Jeffery Lew’s third-grade son went to school in Seattle. Jeffery heard that some families at his son’s school owed money to the school lunch program and that after three days the district disables their lunch account and bills the parents. Jeffery checked and the entire debt for the school was 97 dollars.…

Steve Bartman is notorious in Chicago. In 2003, he interfered with a foul ball that would have been an out but instead it went a long way toward the Cubs losing the playoff and missing the World Series. He may have been the most hated man in the land of Chicago Cubs baseball. After the Cubs won the 2016…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Brotherly forgiveness makes room for the forgiveness of Jesus to enter into their common life. Instead of seeing their neighbours as men who have injured them, they see them as men for whom Christ has won forgiveness on the cross. They meet on…

Jessica Baker was unable to attend her friend’s wedding when her plans for a babysitter fell through at the last minute. Since the wedding invitation was clear that children were not allowed, they had no choice but to miss the wedding. Later, they received a bill from the newlyweds for $75.90 with the…

In the book, Forgiveness and Health: Scientific Evidence and Theories Relating Forgiveness to Better Health, the authors write, “Research indicates forgiveness can promote resilience (Worthington, 2005) as well as physical and mental health (Thorensen, Harris, & Luskin, 2000) and, thus, forgiveness can…

An Australian mother who spent several days in the hospital with her infant son returned to find two surprises on her car. She found a parking ticket and a note from a stranger who had paid the fine. The mother, who did not identify herself, posted on a Canberra Mum’s Facebook page to thank the woman…

When Pope Francis visited South Korea in August of 2014, it caused quite a stir to some journalists. What was the stir? It was not the grand pomp and pageantry accompanying a papal visit. The stir was the fact that Pope Francis rode in a very small and modest Kia to his different destinations. –Jim L.…

When neighbors in a Michigan community were annoyed over a paperboy’s car making too much noise early in the morning, they had a choice. They could file a noise complaint with the police, or call the Newspaper and get him fired. Instead they decided to help out someone in need. The paper boy’s car had…

The cell-phone video of a woman paying for diapers for a cash strapped young mother went viral after another shopper who witnessed the act of kindness and put it on his Facebook page. Carol Flynn had just paid for her purchase and was preparing to leave the store, when she overheard a young woman behind…

The current president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan urged local Nigerian politicians in the country “to imbibe the habit of forgiveness and reconciliation in the interest of national development.” He noted that forgiveness is one of the “secrets of success by any leader… [and] a leader should have a natural…

According to tradition, in 1357 a Swiss man named Konrad Mueller killed another man named Heinrich Stucki. Part of the punishment was that Mueller and all subsequent owners of the farm had to give a local church 70 Swiss francs ($76 US) a year to cover the cost of candles and oil to keep an eternal lamp…