Little by little, Centralia, Pennsylvania, is dying. According to an AP report, population is down to 21. Centralia used to be home to over 4,000. What is the problem? It is an underground fire that has burned continuously beneath the city since 1962! The fire is burning a particularly slow burning type of coal in the mine that runs...

A popular restaurant has a slogan "No Rules. Just Right." No doubt the restaurant is trying to enhance its image as a place where you can have fun and eat in an informal atmosphere. The slogan, if taken seriously, reveals an interesting tendency in our society. We rebel against rules. Rules are important, however. Aren't we...

USA Today recently ran an article about a study done by the National Marriage Project by Rutgers. This study may motivate churches to do more to uphold the honor of marriage. In a survey of men and women in their twenties: 62% thought living together before marriage is a good way to avoid divorce. This runs counter to...

One of the most ardent patriots in the American Revolution was John Adams, our second president. One of the events that helped spark the revolution was an event called The Boston Massacre. It involved a riot between American patriots and British soldiers. The defense attorney for the soldiers was one John Adams. His...

Wild Bill Longley evidently lived up to his name. Longley, according to tales of the Old West, killed 32 people. Recently his grave was dug to see if he was really in the casket. Longley had been called the man who cheated death. Some had speculated that the casket was filled with rocks. It wasn't, and the body's DNA...

A small town barber was having trouble with a new chain operation that came to town. To get the customers to change, the chain advertised a slogan "Home of the $5 Haircut." The old barber had just about reached the end of his rope when he came up with a slogan that brought his customers back. His slogan was "We Fix...

Walter Lee Price, a church elder, former FBI agent and lawyer, has an interesting story in his book, 100 Years at the Bar. In Carter County, TN, a church engaged an attorney to help them in a new project. The attorney had titled the land to The Lord God, Almighty. When the church wanted to move they had trouble executing...

It is reported that Gandhi taught his own version of the seven deadly sins. He said the seven deadly sins were: 1) Wealth without work, 2) Pleasure without conscience, 3) Knowledge without character, 4) Commerce without morality, 5) Science without humanity, 6) Worship without sacrifice, and 7) Politics without...

Just outside Bryson City, NC, is a beautiful highway called by locals, "The Road to Nowhere." It is what is left of an aborted attempt to create a highway between Bryson City and Townsend, Tennessee. Environmental concerns caused the cessation of the project. Those who travel the road tell of how beautiful the scenery is...

Most people would affirm the genius of Thomas Jefferson. He was an eloquent writer, an inquisitive thinker and a great inventor. Those who visit the Jefferson home, Monticello, are amazed at his many innovations and inventions. One invention, however, is an inspiration for a different reason. Jefferson designed a concept for...