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NFL Star Reflects on Near-Death Injury
Ricardo Lockette rose up the ranks of pro football and eventually helped the Seattle Seahawks win the Super Bowl in 2014. But on November 1, 2015, the ...
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Every Christian Is Called to Pursue Bold Leadership
Claude Alexander, bishop of The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, urges Christians from all walks of life to step up into bold leadership. Here's ...
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Six Ways People Find Meaning in Work
American essayist, historian, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote: "It is not enough to be industrious. So are the ants." The British ...
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Increase in Self-Promotion in Pop Music
This shouldn't come as a surprise, but a study reports self-regard, self-promotion, and plain old bragging are far more prominent in pop music than ...
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Pro Soccer Player Made Soccer His God
In his article titled "Professional Soccer Was My God," former pro soccer player Gavin Peacock writes:
I was never going to be tall, so my dad ...
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Mt. Everest Climber Had the Wrong Goal
In his best-selling book, Into Thin Air, John Krakauer tells the story of the ill-fated expedition to the summit of Mount Everest in 1996. In the book ...
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Country Singer Merle Haggard's Restless Soul
Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more than a dozen made it to ...
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Being Smarter Doesn't Equal Happiness
In an article in The Atlantic, Joe Pinkser interviews author Raj Raghunathan about his book If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? The article ...
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'Stealth Secularism' Hooks Us Through Stories
Christian apologist Nancy Pearcey uses the following story to show how "stealth secularism" can bypass our critical grid and hook us emotionally: ...
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Two Kids Dream of Flight
Any given day, 23,000 scheduled flights take off and land at American airports. At any given time, 5,000 of those airplanes are simultaneously airborne. ...
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