A Memorial Day Prayer from The Christophers
Heavenly Father, Today we honor those who gave their life for their country on foreign battlefields and here at home. Though they would have preferred peace to war, they responded to the call to serve...
View ArticleA Military Family Fights to End Stigma Around Mental Illness & PTSD After...
(Photo of retired Major Gen. Mark Graham property of U.S. Army. Other photos property of the Graham family.) “I knew our son was sad, but I didn’t know he could die from being too sad,” recalled...
View ArticleHelping People Live and Die with Dignity: A Look at the Film “The American...
Inside the Villa Loretto Nursing Home in Mt. Calvary, Wisconsin, Sister Stephen Bloesl gathers the staff in the room of a dying woman whose daughter sits by her side. Everyone, from nurses and...
View ArticleMental Illness: Healing the Unseen Wounds
The following is the text of the Christopher News Note “Mental Illness: Healing the Unseen Wounds” (which was written by a freelancer). If you’d like a pdf or hard copy, see the end of this post: The...
View ArticleGod Creates Beauty From Ashes: An Interview w. Taya Kyle, Widow of “American...
“I’ve learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.” So says Taya Kyle, who learned that lesson the hard way. Taya is the widow of Navy SEAL and Iraq War veteran Chris Kyle....
View ArticleIf You Replace Devils with Devils, You Get Hell on Earth
(Photo property of Kirsten Luce for The New York Times) I generally use this space to share stories of people who light a candle rather than curse the darkness, but today I’m highlighting a level of...
View ArticlePictures Galore from the 2016 Christopher Awards, Where Stories of Heart and...
After months of preparation, the 67th annual Christopher Awards took place in New York City last night to honor storytellers who highlight the better angels of our nature. Based on what guests told me...
View Article‘There Has Been No Finer Act of Unselfish Heroism in Military History’
What kind of man intentionally crashes his airplane behind enemy lines during wartime to save a friend? That’s the question that New York Times best-selling author Adam Makos set out to answer in his...
View ArticleA Day Without Death: A Brief Review of the Movie “Risen”
The movie “Risen” was released on DVD this week, so I want to give it a brief review. In a nutshell, it’s the story of a Roman tribune named Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), who oversees the crucifixion of...
View ArticleVeteran & Quadruple Amputee Travis Mills: ‘God Had a Plan For Me to Keep...
It was April 10, 2012, and U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills was on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan. He and his team were sent to an area to check for IEDs (improvised explosive devices), and...
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