This is something something truly remarkable. Details: An armless pianist who plays with his toes has won the first series of China’s version of the internationally popular television talent show “China’s Got Talent.” Liu Wei, 23, who lost both his arms at age 10 when he was electrocuted during a game of hide-and-seek, defeated 7-year-old…

That’s the assessment of a new poll, which finds a surprising number of people in “unchurched” parts of America still describe themselves as “Christian”: While it’s no surprise that the highest proportion of self-identified Christians reside in the South, a new survey reveals that even in the most unchurched U.S. cities, nearly three out of…

A makeshift altar near the mineshaft in Chile These opening paragraphs from a report on the trapped miners in Chile are a homily waiting to be given: Engineers Sunday rushed to reinforce a shaft through which to hoist 33 men trapped over two months down a mine in Chile, as the men below argued over…

Longtime readers of this blog will remember that I posted several items about the final months of Randy Pausch — I even preached about him one Sunday. Now comes word that his widow is writing a book about what it was like to be his caregiver: Jai Pausch, the widow of Mr. Pausch, who died…

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