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Americans Plan to Scale Back on Holiday Spending This Year
A Gallup poll taken back in October asked Americans to predict how much they’ll spend on Christmas gifts this year. The average came out to $805. ...
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The Futility of Rooting Out Sin Apart from The Holy Spirit
For the last 20 years sociologist Peter Simi has spent time with and studied white supremacist groups and individuals. Many groups, such as the White ...
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Man Desires the Trust of His Homeless Friend
A little while ago I wandered into the wrong hospital room at Stony Brook University Hospital (New York). A middle-aged man with only a few teeth and ...
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St. Francis's Extreme Embrace of Poverty
Among his many virtues, [St. Francis of Assisi] is known for his passionate embrace of poverty. Not only did he forbid his emerging Order to own property, ...
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Ascetic Koinonia
Pachomius was an Egyptian soldier won to Christ by the kindness of Christians in Thebes. After his release from the military around A.D. 315, he was baptized. ...
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Nature Helps Depression
America is swimming in a sea of Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil! In 2006 alone, over 190 million prescriptions were given for antidepressants. The swim is a ...
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Wealthy Investor Damages a Picasso
Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso is estimated to have produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations, ...
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CEO Focused on Materialistic Competition
Peggy Noonan describes an encounter with an American CEO:
I am talking with the head of a mighty American corporation. We're in his window-lined office, ...
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Man Burns His Possessions to Find Happiness
British style writer Neil Boorman has decided to burn every branded thing in his possession. "I am addicted to brands," he confessed in a magazine ...
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Chesterton on Getting Money
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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