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Expert Claims We All Engage in Small-scale Cheating

We tend to think that people are either honest or dishonest …. We like to believe that most people are virtuous, but a few bad apples spoil the ...


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Business Leaders Fulfill Their Promise at Personal Cost

The original owners of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company had the reputation for being people of integrity. The following story reveals their ...


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Christian Tourists Steal Items from C. S. Lewis's Favorite Pub

James Emery White tells the following story about his visit to the Eagle and Child pub in Great Britain, the place where C. S. Lewis and his friends used ...


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Children's Writer Says Children Grow Through Pain and Loss

Author Ken Gire writes: The children's writer Katherine Paterson wrote a book based on her son David's loss of a childhood friend. It was his ...


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The Tuskegee Airmen Display Courageous Faithfulness

George Lucas' 2012 film Red Tails provides a dramatized version of the true events behind a group of World War II soldiers called the Tuskegee Airmen. ...


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Professor Startled by Student's Lack of Ethical Baseline

Dr. Stephen L. Anderson, a professor in Ontario, Canada, had what he called a moment of "startling clarity" while teaching a section on ethics ...


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Building Homes with Too Much Sand Leads to Tragedy

While doing relief work in Haiti following the devastating earthquake there on January 12, 2010, Palmer Chichen observed firsthand the tragedy of building ...


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The Stories We Love Will Shape Our Character

Professor Daniel Taylor notes that as a child Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian leader who was executed for resisting the Nazis, was greatly moved by reading ...


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Famous Board Game Reflects Our Changing Values

The hugely popular board game by Milton Bradley called The Game of Life went through the following variations—all of which reflect the changing ...


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U.S. Marine Lieutenant Leads by Example

At the age of 23, Second Lieutenant Karl Marlantes was in charge of 40 marines during an intense battle in the Vietnam War. Marlantes had moved his men ...


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