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Prominent Author Experiences An Almost-Conversion
A classic example of an almost-conversion to Christ happened to Lord Kenneth Clark, one of Great Britain's most prominent art historians and authors, ...
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Twitter Imagines New United Airlines Mottos after Scandal
If you read, watch, or listen to the news at all, you probably heard a story about a certain United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville (in April ...
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Wine That Used To Bring Freedom Became Bondage
In her blog post titled "So I Quit Drinking," Christian writer Sarah Bessey gives a powerful example of habits that, perhaps not sinful in themselves, ...
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Psychologists Say Self-Justification Chokes Love Out Of Relationship
In their book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson describe how a fixation on our own righteousness ...
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Speeding Driver Gives Officer Questionable Excuse
When it comes to excuses, law enforcement officers tend to have heard them all. But recently two drivers came up with some novel excuses. When a driver ...
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Film 'Fences' Shows Rationalization for Sin
In the movie Fences (originally a play written by August Wilson), Denzel Washington plays Troy Maxson, a fifty-three year-old man who works for the sanitation ...
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Athletes Blame Woes on Defective Soccer Balls
During the 2002 Soccer World Cup, Adidas introduced their Fevernova soccer ball, which featured a new design that was supposed to make the ball follow ...
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Dad's Hilarious Excuse Notes for Kids
Seth King has become an internet sensation after his children's excuse notes made their way to the internet. King says, "I was probably writing ...
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The Origin of 'Skin in the Game'
According to one story (which may be a legend), in the late 1960s, the now-iconic investor Warren Buffet pried seed money for his very first stock fund ...
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A College Speaker Proves Relativism Doesn't Work
Christian philosopher J.P. Moreland has written about an encounter with a student at the University of Vermont. Moreland was speaking in a dorm when a ...
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