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How Melissa McCarthy’s Mother Changed the Course of Her Life
At the age of 20, Melissa McCarthy, was a bored, sometime college student living in Boulder, Colorado. She called her mother and said, “Mom, I got ...
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The ‘Easter Effect’ and How it Changed the World
In a Wall Street Journal article, George Weigel gives a combination history lesson and apologetic for the Resurrection:
There is no accounting for the ...
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Technologists Have Decided ‘No Phones for Our Children’
The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t ...
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Tennessee Teens Blanket Their School with Notes of Encouragement
Anyone who's been through it knows that middle school can be tough. At Harriman Middle School in Tennessee, a group of students took it upon themselves ...
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How God Used Tragedy to Multiply a Call to Missions
Recently Pastor Ronnie Floyd shared the moving story of Missionary Howard Borden on Fox News:
In the early 1900s, 16-year-old William Whiting Borden graduated ...
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Tim Keller on the Nature of Sexual Desires
Pastor/author Timothy Keller used the following thought experiment to demonstrate how our sexual feelings and desires can be influenced by social forces: ...
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Media Exposes Children to 15,330 Violent Acts a Year
In his book, Jeffrey Froh writes that an American child who watches three hours of children's television programming a day will see 4,380 good acts ...
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White Powder in Cash Transaction Prompts Emergency Response
At a Cenex convenience store, seven people were taken to the hospital as a result of mysterious symptoms experienced by a cashier.
It started when one ...
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New Insight into the Cultural Benefits of Missions
In her novel The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver's main character is a missionary to Africa named Nathan Price. According to one review of the ...
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Student Invites Teacher to Harvard Graduation 21 Years Later
At the end of the school year in 1997, Judith Toensing wrote in one of her sixth grade students' report cards, "It's been a joy to have you ...
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