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In 2015, Amanda Knox was granted a not guilty verdict by the Italian Supreme Court. A tearful Knox said she is glad to have her life back after an eight-year legal drama that gripped many around the world. She was prosecuted after the body of her friend Meredith Kercher, 21, was found in 2007 in the…

When Judge Carl Fox was a North Carolina district attorney, he successfully prosecuted Charles Alston for armed robbery. Alston received a 25 year sentence. When Fox was recently diagnosed with blood cancer and in need of a bone marrow donation, he got a surprising letter from Alston. Alston wrote, “I…

In 1984, Stephen Owens and his mother Gaile found his father beaten to death in their home. Stephen was surprised; Gaile was not. She was not surprised because she hired Sidney Porterfield to kill her husband, a task that he did with a tire iron. Forgiveness did not come easy. Owens had no contact with…

In an interview with Time Pastor Rick Warren was asked, “If you could get people to change one thing, what would it be?” Warren’s answer may be the quote of the year. “I’d get them to stop believing everything they think. We lie to ourselves more than anybody else. Jesus said the truth will set you free—but…

A teenaged Indian boy worked for years to earn enough money to free his mother on bail. Kanhaiya Kumari was born in an Indian prison because his mother was five months pregnant when she was arrested for murder in 1993. Both mother and son remained in prison together for six years, and then Kanhaiya was…

In the movie The Mission, Robert DeNiro's character, Mendoza, a kidnapper and slave trader of the indigenous people of South America, repents from his ways and turns to God. Mendoza repeatedly carries a load of armor tied to his body while climbing up a cliff as a form of penance for killing his brother…

In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Grace preempts accusation, freeing both parties. When we extend grace to our enemies, they receive a shockingly unexpected glimpse of the kingdom. And, at precisely the same time that…

PRAYER Andrew Klavan was born Jewish. How he became a Christian is a simple testimony of the power of prayer. Having deserted Judaism for Atheism as a young man, he was merrily sailing along in a world of non-belief. He was reading an adventure novel when one of the main characters said a prayer before…

Sheila Walsh, singer, author, and former co-host of the 700 Club, says in Leadership journal: In 1992 my life hit the wall. One morning I was sitting on national television with my nice suit and my inflatable hairdo, and that night I was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. It was the kindest…

DIGNITY She needed help standing. Over forty years ago she was arrested for refusing to stand and give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL; on this day, she gladly stood. Leaning on the Speaker of the House of Representatives’ arm, Rosa Parks received the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’…

ALLEGIANCE November 8, 2008 was the thirtieth anniversary of one of the most unusual basketball game s in NBA history. When officials upheld a protest, the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Nets had to replay the final seventeen minutes and fifty seconds of a November 23, 1979 game. What made the…

In her book, Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life, Gail Blanke challenges her readers to go room by room in your house throwing out things, then go to work on your mind. Get rid of mind clutter. Good stewardship means we keep focused on what is really important, and it is not usually…