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Must-Have Christmas Gifts by Year

The website Statistic Brain has tracked the "must-have Christmas gift" for the past few decades. In 1983 everyone had to have a cabbage patch doll. In ...


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Mary and Joseph on Holmes Rahe Stress Scale

The Holmes Rahe scale assigns points to various life stressors. These points are called LCUs or a life change units. Dr. Holmes and Dr. Rahe concluded ...


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Tim Keller: Why Christmas Matters

If Jesus didn't come, the story of Christmas is one more moral paradigm to crush you. If Jesus didn't come, I wouldn't want to be anywhere around these ...


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Marathoner Must Know Why He Runs

Long after the sun had set on the Boston Marathon, the official clock turned off, and the crowds had all but gone home, 39 year old Venezuelan, Maickel ...


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Christ's Birth Was at Perfect Time

In a debate with the atheist (and now deceased) Christopher Hitchens, William Lane Craig noted how Christ's arrival on earth occurred at the perfect ...


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Parents Get Tattoos of Daughter's Birthmark so She Won't Feel Different

18-month-old Honey-Rae Phillips was born with a strawberry rose-red birthmark on her right side, a mark that is growing right along with her. It's ...


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The Quiet but Deep Influence of Jesus' Life

In some ways, our biggest challenge in gauging Jesus' influence is that we take for granted the ways in which our world has been shaped by him. For ...


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What Gifts do the Ultra-Rich Give?

With Christmas around the corner, many of us have presents on the mind. It's a human universal to give gifts to loved ones, but in the rarified air ...


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The World's Worst Bonuses

Who doesn't love a Christmas bonus? Well … not everyone, apparently. Some of these people didn't like theirs, and with good reason. David ...


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We Can't Have 'Ordinary' Experiences Anymore

Joe Queenan, writer for the New York Times and GQ, criticizes what he calls our culture's "inability to accept the ordinary." Queenan says ...


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