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Family Planning Suicide Saved Through Prayer
Kumar, a Christian in South India, was grieved because none of the 13 people he had invited came to watch a Billy Graham evangelistic broadcast at his ...
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The Beginning of Despair
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered ...
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No Reason to Live
Hunter S. Thompson, the so-called gonzo journalist, committed suicide on February 16, 2005, leaving instructions that his ashes should be shot out of ...
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Winter Town Receiving Sunlight
The little village of Rattenberg is the smallest town in Austria, and getting smaller each year. The town has lost 20 percent of its population in the ...
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"Thirteen Conversations About One Thing": No Reason for Life's Trials?
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing follows four separate characters who face unexpected trials and setbacks. They are forced into making difficult ...
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The Meaningless Life of an Atheist
Freelance writer Greta Christina, published often in feminist and adult magazines, is brutally honest regarding her dilemma about dying. As an atheist, ...
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Guardian Angel Rescues "Jumpers"
The Yangtze River Bridge, a national landmark in China, is always crowded with traffic, while the great river 100 yards below is filled with barges. The ...
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Doctor Describes the Healing Power of Hope
When Jerome Groopman diagnosed patients with serious diseases, the Harvard Medical School professor discovered that all of them were "looking for ...
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"War and Peace": Knowing Right and Doing Wrong
War and Peace is based on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel. With the backdrop of Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia in the early 1800s, a variety ...
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Arthur Miller Unable to Tell Marilyn Monroe "God Loves You."
In his autobiography Timebends, Arthur Miller tells of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. During the filming of The Misfits Miller watched Marilyn descend ...
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