Church consultant William Easum once spent a couple of days consulting with 11 small, dying churches in an isolated Appalachian valley. The 11 churches were scattered over a 30-mile area, with a total combined worship attendance of 125 people. (That’s an average of 11.4 people per church.) Nine of [...]

In James Cameron’s movie Titanic, treasure hunters seek out 102-year-old Rose Calvert, who is believed to be the last person to have seen a fabulous diamond called the “Heart of the Ocean,” a jewel supposedly worth even more than the famed Hope Diamond. The “Heart of the Ocean” was [...]