The Associated Press reports that Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow, will appear in a pro-life SuperBowl commercial:

The group isn’t releasing details, but the commercial is likely to be an anti-abortion message chronicling Pam Tebow’s 1987 pregnancy. After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a recommendation by doctors to abort her fifth child and gave birth to Tim.

Ed Stetzer has an excellent article in Christianity Today about the tendency of evangelicals to abuse statistics:

I suspect that we are attracted to bad statistics mostly for motivation. We need a personal push and hope to give one to our churches as well. But bad stats can feed self-loathing and lethargy as much as they can encourage steadfastness in mission.

Ever heard of Herb Alpert? The trumpet player is one of the most influential behind-the-scenes men in music during the past forty years.

It’s tough to imagine a bigger name in the music world than trumpet player Herb Alpert. He’s won eight Grammys. He’s cut 14 albums that went platinum, 15 that went gold. He’s the “A” in A&M Records. He discovered the Carpenters. He’s made millions of dollars as an entertainer and artist and given millions of dollars away to support the arts.

A profile of Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier:

He was unsurprisingly the youngest person to be inducted into Aviation Hall of Fame. And he did it all with the kind of style and grace under pressure that made it look easy and gave his rivals fits.