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The Hunger Christ Blesses

It is the desire for God which is the most fundamental appetite of all, and it is an appetite we can never eliminate. We may seek to disown it, but it ...


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Hurricane Katrina Unleashes Human Nature

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast throughout the last week of August, 2005—destroying buildings, flooding cities, and leaving millions ...


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Forcing Hoarders to Clean Up Won't Solve the Problem

A USA Today article described the Seattle home and lawn of an elderly man as resembling a junkyard. After many complaints by his neighbors, relatives ...


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When $15 Million a Year Is Not Enough

Born into a small house crammed with lots of people, professional basketball player Scottie Pippen didn't have much as a boy. But his journey into ...


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Psychologists Discover What Makes People Happy

Psychologists are studying what makes people happy. "Materialism is toxic for happiness," says University of Illinois psychologist Ed Diener. ...


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See What You Have

If Danny Simpson had known more about guns, he might not have needed to rob the bank. But in 1990, in Ottawa, Canada, this 24-year-old went to jail, and ...


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Bitter Envy

There is an ancient tale about two people, one of whom was envious of the other. The envious person was once given an opportunity to ask a favor from ...


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Nothing Needed

Socrates was wont to say—"They are most happy and nearest the Gods that needed nothing." And coming once up into the Exchange at Athens, ...


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Poisoned by Greed

Recently I laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Thinking the tiny granules of poison were food, the ants began to pick them up ...


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Malicious Wish

Two shopkeepers were bitter rivals. Their stores were directly across the street from each other, and they would spend each day keeping track of each ...


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