Buford was a fifteen-year-old who lived deep in the backwoods of Handshoe, Kentucky. He suffered from an external brain tumor that parted his scalp and extended partially over his right eye,...

I love pelicans, not for their beauty but for their grace. Watching them glide through the sky calms my soul. Lately, my soul has needed calming. I have been diligently searching...

July 17, 2015, was like an earthquake for me and my family. On that day, doctors discovered that I had a 6.2 cm tumor, and I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer....

On my way to work, I drive past a sheep farm with lush pasture. One day I noticed a young lamb outside the fence near the road. Grazing on the newly...

I grew up the son of a sharecropper in the late 1930s. Each evening we would sit down at the table, and Dad would read scripture to us five children and...

On August 21, 2017, people across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina were able to witness and experience a total solar eclipse, where the moon passed between the earth...

I was born into a Christian family and we attended church every Sunday. But when my parents separated during my adolescence, I went through a crisis of faith. For many years,...

When I was in school my father attended all of my activities — football games, basketball games, wrestling tournaments. For a long time I thought it was only because of our...

My husband and I make it a practice to give physical goods rather than cash to someone in need. So when Jack rolled down my car window and asked me to...

I bought an electronic tablet to gain access to my e­mails. However, I quickly found out that the tablet contains many more applications. Soon I was exploring my new device in...