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A Coffee and a Prayer
Sometimes, a cup of coffee is just what someone needs to make it through the day—sometimes, however, the people making the coffee can provide better ...
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NFL Star Describes the Mentors Who Helped Him
Professional football player Demaryius Thomas' mother was arrested and sent to prison when Thomas was only 11. "[At the time] my father was in ...
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Lawyer Learns That We're All Broken
In his bestselling book, Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, tells the story of Jimmy Dill, a convicted murderer who had ...
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A White Woman Learns to Cry 'Black Tears'
Brenda Salter McNeil tells the story of a diverse group of Christians who traveled across the United States visiting some of the places known for their ...
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Tolstoy's Story 'Two Old Men'
Leo Tolstoy's story Two Old Men tells the tale of two men, Efim and Elisha, who decide that before they die they must make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. ...
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What Happened to Face-to-Face Conversations?
In an article in The New York Times, communications expert Sherry Turkle asks, "What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so ...
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NYPD's Hostage Negotiator on Empathy
Lt. Jack Cambria has spent more than a decade talking people down from the ledge. Until his retirement in 2015, he was the commanding officer of the NYPD's ...
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Special Suit Helps Students Empathize with Elderly
How do you train a 20-something medical school student to feel genuine empathy for senior citizens? Enter "The Age Man Suit." Consisting of ...
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Professor Says Humans Are Just Machines
In his book Flesh and Machines, MIT professor Rodney Brooks writes that a human being is nothing but a machine—or what he calls a "big bag ...
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Fight Depression. Get a Friend.
There is an idea that someone can "catch" depression, but research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B challenges that idea. Their ...
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