
Inspired to Create a Grand New Flag
What started as a creative school project back in the late 1950s for 17-year-old Robert G. Heft ended up the nation’s new flag—and a truly inspiring story.
In 1978, author Loren Eiseley published an essay called “The Star Thrower.” It recounts a beach walk by a narrator...
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What started as a creative school project back in the late 1950s for 17-year-old Robert G. Heft ended up the nation’s new flag—and a truly inspiring story.

The heartwarming story of how Editor-in-Chief Edward Grinnan met his wife

Things may not have gone your way in the past, but God is always creating new opportunities for you to fulfill your dreams.
It’s What Inspires You Wednesday!
I thought I was doing something great, merely hooking up their TV. She has devoted her life to making their lives better.

How someone, who feels so undeserving and indeed handicapped with a debilitating stutter, manages nonetheless to find his voice
It’s What Inspires You Wednesday!
I noticed that the secular media didn’t know how to describe angels.
Here are a few things that, improbably, perhaps, inspired me in the week since Gabrielle Giffords was shot.
This week, we chose three comments from our Facebook page.

“Red Tails,” a film about the Tuskegee Airmen, opens this weekend. Watch as Sam Henderson, a real-life member of that pioneering group of men, tells his inspiring story.

Former American Idol star Brooke White stars in a new made-for-TV movie about personal growth.
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