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Writers and TV Shows Reveal Pain of Aging
In 1975, a 63-year-old Elizabeth Bishop wrote to her long-time friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell, who was then 58 and just two years from his death. ...
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God Uses the Young but Saves His Best Work for the Mature
Os Guinness argues that God can use and has used people in their youth, but God also has accomplished some of his best work through people more advanced ...
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Football Coach Disciples His Team
For four decades, Amos Alonzo Stagg coached football at the University of Chicago. They were the original Monsters of the Midway, long before the Bears ...
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Research Shows Power Really Does Corrupt Us
In the early 1970s, a psychologist at named David Kipnis wanted to know if power really does corrupt people. So in a series of experiments, Kipnis ...
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College Leader Tells Skeptic, 'Watch Me'
As an under-graduate, theologian/author D.A. Carson co-led an evangelistic Bible study. He confessed that whenever he felt out of his depths, he would ...
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114-Year-old Woman Still Curious
Anna Stoehr is 114 years old, but for one day she got to be 99. Why? Because in order for her to create a Facebook account she couldn't be older than ...
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Older Man Becomes 'Dad' to Father-abandoned Man
At a men's retreat, a group of 30-40 men of all ages sat in a room sharing joys and deep aches of the soul. A young man named Jason sat in his chair, ...
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Survey Identifies Our "Leadership Crisis"
The yearly "National Study of Confidence in Leadership" conducted by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard tracks the public's confidence ...
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Worker Absenteeism Tied to Hope
American businesses lose $153 billion annually because of employees struggling with chronic health conditions and billions more due to mild illnesses ...
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A Lesson from Mandela on Leadership
Speaking at Nelson Mandela's funeral, Ms. Joyce Banda, the President of Malawi, shared the most profound lesson she learned from him about leadership: ...
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