July 9, 1974 – Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama: He arrived at the federal minimum security prison at Maxwell to begin serving his three-year sentence. It was a somber day, full of remorse and remembering. At 38-years-old he had been on top of the...
On February 26, 1791, 88 years old and in failing health, Methodist theologian John Wesley penned a letter to his good friend in the faith, William Wilberforce. It was the last letter he ever wrote. Wesley, a long-time outspoken opponent of the British slave trade,...
In 1986 fifty-seven-year old Sharon Elliott was flabbergasted to learn from her 86-year-old mother, Faith Morrow, that she had been adopted. Faith had promised herself that she would never tell Sharon her secret, but dying from cancer changes your plans. Sharon had...
On June 20, 2016, Dion Leonard was in northwestern China, standing at the starting line on the second day of the Six-Day 155-mile Gobi Desert Run, when the scruffy little brown dog materialized at his feet. Concerned he would trip over the dog, he tried several times...
Christopher Reeve grew up in New York with a dream to be an actor. As a teenager, he landed summer acting roles in theaters from Boston to Cape Cod. After earning his BA degree from Cornell University in 1975, he did graduate work at the Juilliard School in New York...
It was midnight, and 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber was sitting alone in the bus station in Pensacola, Florida. Before leaving with her latest boyfriend, his mother had given him money and told him to buy a ticket to his 14-year-old married sister’s house in Gastonia,...
