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Legal Definition of a Facebook 'Friendship'
Are your friends on Facebook actually your friends? According to an appeals court in Florida, "[l]egally, Facebook friends aren't necessarily ...
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Actor John Hamm: 'It's Not Weak to Say, I Need Help.'
Actor Joe Hamm (star of the show Mad Men) did a stint in rehab for an alcohol addiction. Hamm confessed in an interview, "I'm certainly damaged—there's ...
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Best-Selling Rap Star Rages Against Absent Father
With eleven Grammy awards, Eminem is the biggest-selling rapper of the last decade. So it is clear the message in his style of music is resonating and ...
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Middle-Aged Men Biggest Threat: Loneliness
Dr. Richard S. Schwartz, a Cambridge psychiatrist who has studied the problem of loneliness in America, notes that over four decades of studies have shown ...
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In Our Loneliness God Turns His Face Toward Us
Dallas Willard (who lost his mom as a young child) writes of a little boy whose mom had died. He was especially sad and lonely at night. He would come ...
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What Happens When We Practice Hospitality
In her book Openness Unhindered, Rosaria Butterfield reminds us that the point of hospitality in the home is fellowship, not entertainment. Butterfield ...
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An Accidental Invite at Thanksgiving
Dialing the wrong phone number can be awkward, embarrassing, and sometimes downright frustrating. When a young man forgot to notify his grandmother of ...
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Man with Amnesia Known through Community
When we have forgotten the past, the community helps us re-learn our own story. The case of "Benjamin Kyle" is instructive. In the early morning ...
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Researcher Tracks the 'Vanishing Neighbor' Effect
Few Americans today say they know their neighbors' names, and far fewer report interacting with them on a daily basis. Pulling data from the General ...
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Researchers Struggle to Define Friendship
The New York Times featured an article exploring our current confusion about friendship. "Ask people to define friendship—even [experts who ...
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