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"The Hurricane": Love Sets Us Free
Denzel Washington stars in The Hurricane, the true story of professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's life. At the height of his boxing ...
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Bonhoeffer's Prayer Brings Prisoner Peace
The made for TV film, Bonhoeffer, Agent of Grace, depicts the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader in the Confessing Church of Germany during ...
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Success after Discouragement
"My heart is sunkĀ . It seemed to me I should never have any success among the Indians. My soul was weary of my life; I longed for death, beyond measure." ...
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Death without Hope
Philip Yancey describes a unique funeral custom conducted by African Muslims. Close family and friends circle the casket and quietly gaze at the corpse. ...
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Darryl Strawberry and Drugs
"Life has not been worth living for me. That's the honest truth."
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Hope Beyond Earthly Life
When divers combed the wreckage of the Kursk (the destroyed Russian nuclear submarine on which 118 sailors perished), they found a letter written by Lt. ...
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Part of a Bigger Plan
Faith gets tested when a sense of God's presence fades or when the very ordinances of life make us question whether our responses even matter.
We wonder, ...
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Christ's Hope for the Suffering
In the Koch Gallery of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts hangs Bartolome Murillo's Christ after the Flagellation, a painting that depicts two angels ...
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WWJD for a Prostitute?
Author and speaker Barbara Johnson writes:
I had just finished speaking at one of the last Women of Faith (WOF) conferences in 1998, challenging the audience ...
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Persevering after Loss
In his book Alive, Rick Christian recounts a low point in Thomas Carlyle's life. The noted historian had just spent two years writing a book on the ...
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