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Rosaria Butterfield, author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert is a former lesbian whose book talks of her conversion. She says this about what happened to her. “I wasn’t converted out of homosexuality. I was converted out of unbelief.” The Bible holds out hope to all. There are no sinners…

Gary Alexander has lived in the small town of Wingo, Kentucky all of his life. He remembers hearing the stories about how several downtown buildings were built in the late 1890s. More than one hundred years later, Alexander was hired to demolish the buildings and reuse some of the materials. When the…

Ashh Nicole posted a video to YouTube showing insects falling into the glaze as it poured onto to the pastries in a doughnut shop in North Carolina. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/10/28/Doughnut-shop-customer-films-bugs-falling-into-glaze/9151446053180/?spt=sec&or=on That video, coupled with the recent…

In THANKS! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. writes, “The Jewish and Christian scriptures insist that God’s people, whoever they are and wherever they are and whatever they face, are to be a grateful people, a people filled with praise and with thanksgiving to God.”…

Michelle Goldberg wrote an essay for Salon.com declaring her intention to never have children. She and her husband were pleased with their two-person family, with their consuming careers, constant travel, and many tipsy nights out. They were afraid that, like people said, parenthood would change all…

In his book, Jesus Outside the Lines, Scott Sauls writes that he recently told a gay man, “to affirm his union with the love of his life would mean I’d have to deny the love of mine.” Our relationship with Jesus Christ is so important to us we cannot give in to the temptation to compromise the word of…

Michel Flamant, a French baker, and Isaac Wenrich, a youth league baseball coach have something in common. Both of them had their lives saved in the same week by non-professional and unlikely people. Flamant had collapsed on the floor of his bakery when the room filled with carbon monoxide gas from a…

In an attempt to attract more women, the regional authorities in southern Taiwan have built a church in the shape of a massive high-heeled shoe. The shape of the building is a poor excuse for going to church. Further investigation discovers it is a government building designed to bring brides to the…

A study published in the Journal Social Science and Medicine found that reading books may help people live longer. The researchers said their results indicate that adults who reported reading magazines and newspapers showed an increase in longevity by as much as two years over non-readers. Data from…

Language may prove to be the undoing of Darwinian Evolution. Tom Wolfe in his book, The Kingdom of Speech talks about the findings in a magazine essay published back in 2014. The essay was signed by eight prominent scientists that basically admitted the failure of evolution to explain the origin of human…

Google and computer scientists at Stanford University conducted a study of words used for security questions for online accounts found that many supposedly secure words are a lot less secure than people think. They found hackers could probably guess the answers with ease. For example, a hacker would…

A woman vacationing near a beach in Germany has found a message in a bottle that was set afloat more than 100 years ago. Marianne Winkler, a retired post office worker, was walking down a beach on the German North Sea island of Amrum when she found the bottle that had been sent out by British scientist…

A German artist decided to bury gold bars on a beach in England as part of unique public art project. The bars were hidden and then a local museum announced that as soon as the tide on the beach went out, anyone who found a bar could keep it. The curator of the museum, Lewis Biggs said the art piece…

In ancient Egypt common people, not able to afford the gold used by pharaohs, used papyrus, paint, and glue to make the masks for their mummies. Papyrus too, was expensive, causing them to reuse sheets that had once been used for writing. Recently scientists developed a method to remove the glue of mummy…

“History teaches us about the cyclic rise and fall of civilizations, which, as they become more complex and interconnected, also become more vulnerable to collapse. The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.” –Camille Paglia We can think as highly of ourselves, our…

A voice-over actor sang "Let it Go,” a popular song from the Disney animated movie Frozen, using various Disney characters. The video reached over 2.5 million views and generated many positive feedbacks. Many of the viewers guessed which of their favorite Disney characters sang parts of the song, from…

A book of psalms dating to 1640 and believed to be the first book published in the United States was auctioned for a record $414.2 million. The book was one of several originally owned by the Old South Church in Boston. The church has the distinction of being known as the church Samuel Adams attended,…

An official in the Vatican says Jesus was a master communicator, and could easily be called the world’s first tweeter. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s equivalent of a Culture Minister, believes that if a pastor or other believer is not interested in communication, they are defying their duty.…

Sometime in 1985, a Canadian man named Jonathan wrote a note to a woman named Mary and dropped it into the ocean. Twenty-eight years later the bottle was found almost 5,000 miles away on the banks of the Neretva River. The message inside was posted on social media and in newspapers, It reads, “Mary,…

A billboard put up by an atheist group in California got a lot of attention, but not exactly the kind of attention the group had planned. The group, backyard Skeptics put up a sign including a quote about Christianity attributed to Thomas Jefferson. The outdoor ad featured a picture of Jefferson along…

If you are looking for help getting your life together, Dr. Billy Graham says look no further than the Holy Bible. When asked to recommend a good self-help book for personal development, Graham told the person that the Bible is the “greatest ’self-help’ book ever written.” The famous pastor says purpose…

A Scottish angler set a new world record when he pulled a 98-year-old message in a bottle from the waters off the northern coast of Scotland. Authorities say the bottle that Andrew Leaper caught in his net is the oldest such message ever recovered, beating the previous record by five years. The bottle…

A fire in a small Oregon community destroyed everything inside and outside of a mobile home. When the family returned to sift through the ashes, they found the only thing that was salvageable was a small Bible. The family said they were in the process of moving and were not home at the time the fire…

400 years after its first publication, the King James Bible influences more parts of America than we first think. Here are some of the ways it affects our daily language. “At their wit’s end,” Psalm 107:27 An escape “by the skin of my teeth,” Job 19:20 “Salt of the earth,” Matthew 5:13 “Riotous living,”…

Computer software developed by a team in Israel is giving new insight into what researchers believe about the authorship and composition of the Bible. The software analyzes style and word choices to tell if different authors wrote portions of text. The program is part of a sub-filed of artificial intelligence…