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Writer Admits Disappointment with the Bible
The New York Times Sunday Book Review regularly interviews a writer about what books he or she is reading. In June 2015 they asked the screenwriter Judd ...
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Preaching Prepared a Man to Die
During the last days of the Third Reich, as Allied bombs rained down on Stuttgart and the Nazi terror writhed in its final death throes, Helmut Thielicke ...
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Film 'Saving Mr. Banks' on the Power of Hope
Saving Mr. Banks, starring Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, is the story of Pamela Travers, author of Mary Poppins. Due to the success of her children's books, ...
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Applying God's Word Gets Preacher Run Out of Town
In the American frontier days, there was a settlement in the West whose citizens were engaged in the lumber business. The town felt they wanted a church. ...
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Doctor Lectures on Surgery as His Patient Dies
There's a scene in Herman Melville's (author of Moby Dick) novel White Jacket that focuses on the ship's chief surgeon, Cadwallader Cuticle, M.D. The ...
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Preacher's Rifle Shot Goes in One Ear and Out the Other
Three friends decided to go deer hunting together: a lawyer, a doctor, and a preacher. As they were walking, along came a big buck. The three of them ...
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Two Football Coaches and Two Approaches to Motivation
Mike Howerton describes how different were the motivational methods of the two men who coached his high school football team—Coach Crow and Coach ...
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Filmmaker Claims Orators, Not Films, Change the World
Werner Herzog, one of Germany's greatest filmmakers and screenwriters, said in a 2011 interview: "Movies do not change anything … [that's] an exaggerated ...
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Buoys Fail to Warn Islanders of Future Danger
On October 25, 2010, a massive earthquake set off a tsunami that struck some Indonesian Islands. The tsunamis leveled whole villages, leaving hundreds ...
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Preaching to the Dead
Dr. Erwin Lutzer teaches preaching courses at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Every year, he takes his students on a field trip to the local cemetery—so ...
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