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The Silence of Ministers on the Issue of Abortion
Though the following article appeared some 15 years ago, it holds true today. World Magazine, in a piece called “Silence of the Shepherds,” ...
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Pastor Publishes Open Letter After President's Twitter Attack
When pastor Jonathan Carl of South Fork Baptist Church got a notification that the President of The United States had mentioned him on Twitter, he might’ve ...
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Instructor Sued for Sword-Fighting Injury
When Jeremiah DuPrau signed up for a sword fighting class, he probably didn’t expect to lose vision in one eye and part of the other. But that’s ...
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Millions of People Don't Take Medications Correctly
It's considered "the other drug problem." Millions of people don't take their medicine correctly —or quit taking it altogether—and the consequences ...
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Honor the Limits that God Gave
If you see a large sailboat out on the water moving swiftly, it is because the sailor is honoring the boat's design. If she tries to take it into water ...
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Bad Preaching Is More Deadly than Bad Surgery
In his essay "Sinsick," theologian Stanley Hauerwas explores the notion of authority using a medical analogy. If a medical student told his advisor, "I'm ...
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Courage To Do 'Whatever It Takes'
Several years ago, an enormous financial crisis loomed in Europe. The very survival of the structure of the euro currency, if not the whole of Europe, ...
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Mr. Heimlich Puts His Maneuver Into Practice
It's called the Heimlich maneuver—saving a choking victim with a bear hug and abdominal thrusts to eject a throat obstruction. Since its inception ...
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Comedian Told to 'Embrace Bombing' to Get Better
The NPR radio show "This American Life" featured a story about a French comedian named Gad Elmaleh, probably the most famous stand-up comedian in France. ...
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The Old Preacher's 67,600 Pages of Sermons
In Marilynne Robinson's beautiful novel Gilead, the old preacher John Ames starts digging through a box of sermons in his attic. One day he figures ...
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