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Book Explores Our Pattern of Self-Justification
The authors of the book Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) argue that our tendency to justify our actions is more powerful and deceptive than an explicit ...
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Man Overcomes Gambling Addiction
Before serving as a Methodist minister from 2000 to 2010 near Nashville, Tennessee, John M. Eades spent two decades as a therapist counseling drug and ...
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Policies Prevent Firefighters from Saving Drowning Man
In June, 2011, the city of Alemeda, California, immediately changed its policies after first responders stood by and watched a man drown in San Francisco ...
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Breaking Through Our Fears to Serve Christ
Gary Haugen, the founder of International Justice Mission, a Christian organization that frees people trapped in sex trafficking, describes God's ...
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CEO Learns What Happens When You Run out of People to Blame
A CEO has taken on a new job, and the outgoing CEO says to him, "Sometimes you'll make wrong choices. You will. You'll mess up. When that ...
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Man Encounters Lazy Shoe Repair Shop
I read a story in the L. A. Times a long time ago. A guy goes to the house where he grew up and knocks on the door. Because he hadn't been there for ...
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Chesterton on Defining Evil
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
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Courtney Love Must Stand in Line
Rock star Courtney Love isn't used to waiting in line. She's used to the fame that came with her marriage to mega-star Curt Cobaine of the rock ...
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Henry Ford on Reputation
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
—Henry Ford (18631947)
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Students Ignored Needy to Preach Good Samaritan Sermon
In research done by Darley and Batson at Princeton in 1973, a group of theology students was told that they were to go across campus to deliver a sermon ...
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