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President Lincoln on Being a ‘Great Man’
President Abraham Lincoln’s biographer, Jon Meacham argues that Lincoln's version of Christian faith was complicated. But Meacham also adds, ...
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Shackleton Prioritized Scripture in the Antarctic
Ernest Shackleton is famous for leading the voyage of the Endurance and her crew to the Antarctic, and despite cataclysmic failure, leading his men out ...
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Lincoln Cared for Three Kittens at the Battlefront
Near the end of the Civil War, there was a touching scene that showed the gentleness and tenderness of President Abraham Lincoln. While he was visiting ...
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A Temple to Music
Here's the most famous place you've never heard of. It's St. Peter's Church Hall in Liverpool, England. It looks like a typical church ...
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Hall & Oates' Band Origin Tied to Gun Violence
Pop R&B duo Hall & Oates, hitmakers in the late 70s and early 80s, made their unlikely team-up thanks to a series of unfortunate setbacks, one ...
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Bono on Silence and Surrender
Music icon Bono, lead singer of the popular band U2, tells the Atlantic magazine that lately God has been leading him to desire silence and listen to ...
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Only One Woman Recognized Famous Violinist
There’s a well-known story about a famous violinist who took his $3.5 million Stradivarius onto a platform of a Washington DC subway and started ...
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Missing Heaven on a Technicality
In the book The Faith of Elvis, Billy Stanley, half-brother of Elvis, shares poignantly of the ups and downs of Elvis’ walk with the Jesus. On a ...
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What Actor Steve Martin Learned About Jealousy
Mara Reinstein writes in Parade Magazine:
We met Steve Martin years ago as a banjo-playing comic with an arrow through his head singing "King Tut." ...
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Film Stars Who Don’t Know Who They Are
A 2019 interview focusing on the acclaimed British actress Emma Thompson’s 60th birthday was titled “Emma Thompson Gets a Shock at 60.” ...
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