Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong understands poverty and discrimination, having experienced both while growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early 1900s.
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Skillet has found a music formula that works, and they don’t stray far from it.
Gulwali Passarlay was born in 1994 in Afghanistan one year before the Taliban took control of his country.
Many bands don’t survive long enough to release a sixth studio album.
Disney continues to bring new life to their old catalog, this time giving us a live-action version of their 1977 animated film, Pete’s Dragon.
After nine years, Matt Damon returns to his iconic role as the namesake of this summer’s Jason Bourne.
The Name of God Is Mercyis the pope’s first book since becoming the Bishop of Rome and the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1880, Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town. She worries that she will be the last.
According to author Richard Louv, doctors should “consider prescribing ‘vitamin N’—‘N’ for nature—as an antidote to nature-deficit disorder,
The tenth studio album from southern California band Switchfoot may be their best yet, even competing with their 2003 breakout album The Beautiful Letdown
Hillsong Young and Free is the youngest touring worship band to be developed by Hillsong Church in Australia.
Captain James T. Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise, is bored. It’s the third year in his crew’s five-year mission to explore the universe—to boldly go where no one has gone before.
A bear cub discovers a piano in the forest, but he has no idea what it is. Touching the keys, he’s appalled by the sound it makes.
When I was growing up, my dad took me to see Chariots of Fire, the Oscar-winning 1981 film about Olympic runner, Eric Liddell.
In 1995, a jury decided that O.J. Simpson was not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a man named Ron Goldman.
The Avalanches’ Since I Left You proved that you could make a truly great record out of other people’s castoffs.
Ruth Soukup writes from personal experience as she explores why people stuff their lives with material clutter, excessive busyness, and unhealthy relationships, especially on social media.
As the oldest daughter at home, she is expected to help run the house—cooking and cleaning as well as helping her younger siblings with their homeschooling.
In 1999, tragedy strikes a North Dakota community when Landreaux Iron accidentally kills his neighbor’s son, Dusty Ravich, while hunting a buck.
KoRn lead guitarist Brian “Head” Welch lived the fairly typical life of a metal band member: sex, drugs, and parties.