Cardinal Bernadin of Chicago died of cancer in 1996. A few years earlier, a man accused the Cardinal of a crime he did not commit. The charge was on CNN before Bernadin heard...
Integrity requires me to confess I too have been a plagiarist.
Connie Cameron was eight years old when she overheard Mrs. Burch confide a personal crisis to her mother. When Connie’s mother realized that little ears had picked up private words, she said to...
Lyn visited the park only to see a large old cypress blown over by a storm that had just passed through. She ached as she approached the grand old tree, now lying partially...
The bitterness and anger we hold onto are like those potatoes—and they smell just as bad.
The great golf legend Bobby Jones lost the prestigious U. S. Open Championship when he penalized himself. The ball moved slightly. Only Jones saw it happen, but he knew he had to take...
An American businessman named Larry once spent six months in Britain, during which time he lunched with an English gentleman. “How is your salad?” his host inquired. Eager to appear...
What I have is a shard of old newsprint with a fading picture, enough to prove that I’m not simply telling tall tales. Once upon a time, an immigrant tenant farmer named John...
At the end of the nineteenth century, an American newspaperman tracked Nobel Prize Winner, Marie Curie, to a remote cottage in France. Outside the door, the reporter found a rather dowdy woman. ...
Even as a four-year-old, Bruce was a daredevil. That was the year a New York State Trooper showed up at Bruce’s family home with the youngster and his tricycle in tow. Bruce had...
When Clare Boothe Luce was U.S. Ambassador to Italy, a reporter asked her to define “a classy person.” “A person with class is someone you like to be around,” Mrs. Luce said. “That’s...
A wise woman once found a precious stone in a stream. The next day, she met a traveler who was hungry. When she opened her bag to share her food, the hungry traveler...
True nobility knows no rank in the high calling of our daily work.
When I was younger, people loved listening to the wildly colorful Dizzy Dean on baseball's Game of the Week.
The great humanitarian had forgotten time, and he would not leave until all the towels were picked up.
In a small town in the Midwest, a farm implements dealer emblazoned his building and his truck with the slogan HONEST JIM SMITH. But another man in town commented, “If Jim Smith is...
When Sarah died, Abraham engaged in an exemplary negotiation to buy a burial plot for her. He conducted the negotiations openly and...
A variety of attempts have been made to reduce the multitude of biblical commands to just a few overarching commands or principles. Some examples of this emphasize the importance of the Ten Commandments...
The ninth commandment honors the right to one’s own reputation.[1] It finds pointed application in legal proceedings where what people say depicts...
This passage prohibits cheating in business by falsely measuring length, weight, or quality, and is made more specific by reference to scales...
