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A "Shot to the Heart" Causes Cardiac Arrest
The technical name is Commotio cordis. It simply means a shot to the chest (or, literally from the Latin, "agitation of the heart"). Doctors ...
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National "Get Over It" Day
Letting go and moving on is a difficult, painful process. Bad relationships, bad decisions—we tend to revisit the moments when we were not-so-smart ...
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Pastor Weeps at Gang Member's Vigil
Paco Amodar, a pastor in Little Village on Chicago's west side, lives in a neighborhood rife with gang violence. He tells the following story about ...
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School Bus Driver Stops to Save a Life
On October 18, 2013 in Buffalo, New York, 37-year-old Darnell Barton was driving a bus filled with high school students over a bridge when he spotted ...
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Tim Keller's "Sequel" to the Good Samaritan
We're all familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan. A despised Samaritan stops to help a man who has been beaten by robbers. One of the main ...
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Study Finds Poverty Saps Mental Capacity
For the rich or middle-class it might seem reasonable to ask, Why can't poor people just try harder and pull themselves out of the cycle of poverty? ...
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Unconditional Love for Someone with Severe Disabilities
Jean Vanier, a Christian leader who founded L'Arche communities around the world for persons with severe disabilities, tells a story about a 76-year-old ...
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Attorney Explains How We Allow Human Trafficking
People sometimes ask, How could sex trafficking happen in America's small towns or big cities? Julie Waters, a family law attorney and director of ...
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Christian Company Hires Mostly Ex-convicts
The United States has the largest prison population in the world, with 2.2 million adults behind bars. The United States also consumes more coffee than ...
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Wounded Man Is Helped by Off-duty Nurses
On a cold January night in downtown Minneapolis, a 22-year-old man stumbled into Maxwell's American Pub on Washington Street. At first the bartender ...
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