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When Richard Taverna found a purse by a wall on a New York subway platform, he was surprised by what he found inside. At first glance, he saw some paper with Russian writing on it, but when he looked closer, he found a hundred $100 bills. When he took the purse to police the following morning, Taverna…

In some places, men are becoming more open about viewing highly explicit material in public. On buses, trains, subways, just about anywhere men are opening their cellphones and watching hard-core pornography. In England, a parliamentary committee recently concluded that porn is as damaging to society…

A woman died in Queens, New York after an attacker pushed her in front of a subway train in Times Square. The incident left many of those who commute via subway with a sense of panic and uncertainty. The Times Square station is the busiest on the subway system, with 66 million annual riders. It serves…

Twenty-five-year-old Devin Custalow waited nearly 30 minutes on Valentine’s Day hoping a man she met on the subway in October would show up. Custalow met the man and felt a connection with him, so she created a 20-foot mural asking him to meet her on Valentine’s Day. She was surrounded by friends, family,…

The suspect in the armed robbery of a Subway sandwich shop told police that he had robbed the store because his “Subway Diet” failed him. After 18-year-old Zachary Torrance was arrested, he confessed to the crime and said he was motivated by anger and wanted to get some of his money back. He said after…

Sometimes very simple things can interfere with our plans. In Brooklyn, two lost kitten stopped the city subway system. Authorities cut power to the B and Q lines for more than an hour after a woman called to report that her kittens were loose in the nation’s largest subway system. The power was turned…

Onlookers called an unemployed New York man a superhero because he risked his life to keep a nine-month-old boy from being hit by an oncoming subway train. Delroy Simmonds was on his way to a job interview when he saw the toddler, still strapped into his stroller trapped on the tracks. Simmonds jumped…

“Douglas Murphy had just stepped onto a subway platform in the Bronx, N.Y. when a group of teenagers accidentally bumped into 88-year-old Anna Lebron, knocking her to the tracks. Murphy urged her to get up, but she was unconscious. So he jumped down onto the tracks and struggled back onto the platform…

BELIEF The Big Apple Coalition of Reason (http://newyorkcity.unitedcor.org/)is sponsoring an awareness campaign in New York City, posting advertisements in subway stations that say, “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?” One spokesperson says the campaign is to promote awareness of atheists…

COMMUNITY “In April of 1999, Jeremy went to the beach with some friends from church, just hanging out. As usually happens with most people, he mentioned something that was worrying him—he couldn't make his rent that month. After communion the next evening, the church had an open microphone for anyone…

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN William Bailey panicked when he realized he had accidentally left a leather portfolio containing a Picasso print, and a painting by Sophie Matisse worth $6,000 in a New York subway station. Bailey, a framer and art instructor had been taking the portfolio downtown when he put it down…

On January 12, 2007, at 7:51 a.m., world-renowned violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, dressed as a common street musician, played for forty-five minutes at the top of an indoor escalator system serving the L’Enfant Plaza subway station in Washington, DC. An artist who commands more than $1,000 a minute for…

Sat Feb 9, 7:04 PM ET Kim Sjostrom wanted a real-life version of the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," which played in the background as friends fixed her hair and makeup before her own marriage ceremony. But less than an hour after she and Teddy Efkarpides were wed, Sjostrom crumpled in her husband's…

The American Grammy Award-winning violinist, Joshua David Bell (Born: 1967) emerged from the D.C. Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript - a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From…

Sunday, February 27, 2005 Just how shocking is the Gospel? Sunday morning, I went to hear Rev. James Buchanan preach at Fourth Presbyterian Church, "a light in the City" in the shadow of the Hancock Building, at Michigan and Chestnut streets on the Magnificent Mile. It was an amazing experience - one…

We Do Not Want God On a subway platform in one of our Eastern states there was a large printed sign that said "God Answers Prayer." Some experienced person had scrawled across the bottom underneath the printed letters these words: "Sometimes the answer is NO!" This is what we have to deal with in any…

We Do Not Want God On a subway platform in one of our Eastern states there was a large printed sign that said "God Answers Prayer." Some experienced person had scrawled across the bottom underneath the printed letters these words: "Sometimes the answer is NO!" This is what we have to deal with in any…

|Joshua Bell emerged from the Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript—a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet,…

Joshua Bell emerged from the Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript—a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet,…

A drunk man who smelled like beer sat down on a subway seat next to a priest. The man's tie was stained his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and began reading. After a few minutes the man turned to the…

 YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM BOSTON WHEN... > You think of Philadelphia as the Midwest. > You think it's your God-given right to cut someone off in traffic. > You think there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R's). > You think three straight days of 90+ temperatures is a heatwave. > All your pets are…

To Illustrate •#• AMBITIONS SACRIFICE PROMISES B en Patterson writes in The Grand Essen­tials: "I have a the­ory about old age. ... I believe that when life has whittled us down, when joints have failed and skin has wrinkled and capillar­ies have clogged and hard­ened, what is left of us will be what…

FINAL WORDS. Christ's Farewell to Those He Loved Part One Calming Troubled Hearts Don't you wish you could turn anxiety on and off like a faucet? Wouldn't it be great if you could worry from 9:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and then shut it down so that you could get a good night's rest? Unfortunately, we cannot…