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How Biblical Shalom Resembles a Beautiful Fabric
In a sermon entitled The Beauty of Biblical Justice, pastor Timothy Keller defines the biblical concept of shalom as universal flourishing, wholeness, ...
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Bishop Tutu Says the Bible Subverts Injustice
"There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible. If you want ...
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The Power in Small Deeds of Kindness
On an ordinary winter day in 1961, an MIT meteorologist named Edward Lorenz ran some routine experiments and found some unusual results. Lorenz discovered ...
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Businessman's Vision Leads to 100 Little League Teams for Underprivileged Kids
On his way to work one day, Chicago insurance broker Bob Muzikowski saw a derelict ball field full of trash in a gang-infested neighborhood. The kids ...
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Group of Mothers Makes Big Impact on Gang War Zone
In the early 1990s, gang violence erupted in Boyle Heights, a section of East Los Angeles. Eight gangs were in conflict in the parish around the Dolores ...
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Celebrating the Community Contributions of Believers
Andy Crouch writes in an article titled "Teaching People to Flourish”:
I lived in Boston in the 1980s, and I spoke with a pastor of a major ...
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Missionaries Learn Valuable Lesson in Language School
Anglican priest and author Michael Green shares the following story to remind us of the impact of our actions long before our words:
I read about a missionary ...
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Church Gives Away Half-Million Dollars in Economic Crisis
Like many churches in 2009, Cross Timbers Community Church (Argyle, Texas) has seen an offering slump because of the economic crisis. Though this has ...
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"Civil Lunatics" Reveal a Disturbing Piece of Human Nature
As human beings, we have an amazing capacity for ignoring the things that make us uncomfortable. We ignore symptoms of deteriorating health until something ...
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Creating Change from the Bottom Up
Two weeks after the [2008 presidential] election, I traveled to India to meet Christian pioneers seeking to overturn India's institutional form of ...
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