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Lenten Laughs: A Hypocritical Robber
A priest was coming back to his rectory one evening in the dark when he was accosted by a robber who pulled a gun on him and demanded, "Your money ...
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Research on Honesty and Deceit
In 2008, New York Magazine ran a comprehensive article about research concerning kids and lying. In one study researchers gathered a group of children ...
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Man Encounters Lazy Shoe Repair Shop
I read a story in the L. A. Times a long time ago. A guy goes to the house where he grew up and knocks on the door. Because he hadn't been there for ...
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Why We Lie
Bella DePaulo, a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in studying forms of human deception, asked college ...
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Children Play with a Bomb
Children will play with virtually anything they get their hands on. It's no surprise, then, that when Dutch children in the town of Barneveld uncovered ...
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Christians Struggle with Opposing Desires
We want to be a saint, but we also want to feel every sensation experienced by sinners; we want to be innocent and pure, but we also want to be experienced ...
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Confronting the Addiction of Harmful Words
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, has lectured throughout this country on the powerful, and often negative, impact of ...
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Investing in Vice
As of 2006, the stock market boasts 150 mutual funds that designate themselves as "socially responsible." This means that investments are only ...
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Chesterton on Defining Evil
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
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Displaced Ruler a Prisoner of His Own Appetite
Thomas Costain's book The Three Edwards describes the life of Raynald III, a 14th-century duke in what is now Belgium. Grossly overweight, Raynald ...
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