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Missionary Doctor Never Saw His 'Success'
In 1912, medical missionary Dr. William Leslie went to live and minister to tribal people in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...
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Every Crisis Is an Invitation
"Crises of every kind will find us … [But] these crises enter our lives not just as challenges to us to retain our balance and stability, ...
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How to Reframe Trials and Trauma
Maria Konnikova wrote a fascinating piece in The New Yorker on resilience. Resilience is hard to study because "[i]f you are lucky enough to never ...
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How Clay Turns into Gems under Pressure
Geologist Dr. James Clark recounts visiting the Soviet Union a few years after Communism dissolved. He was asked to preach at a small Russian Baptist ...
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The Runaway Bus Driver Who Made History
On Friday March 28, 1947, at 6:55 A.M., Bronx bus driver William Cimillo got into his bus to start his daily route. But then something happened. He decided ...
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Boston Marathon Bomb Victims Express Thanks
On April 15, 2013, one of the best-known sporting events in the world, the Boston Marathon, turned deadly when two homemade bombs planted close to the ...
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Birds that Need a Storm to Soar
The albatross, a majestic seabird with the longest wingspan of any bird, spends eighteen months at sea, touching down only on water, losing their ability ...
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Research Finds Link Between Stress and Happiness
From 2005 to 2006, researchers from the Gallup World Poll asked more than 125,000 people from 121 countries one question: Did you feel a great deal of ...
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Grandmothers Stress Over Grandchildren
Sin's ability to disintegrate the soul is the subject of a book by a Duke professor named Dan Ariely. In The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: How We ...
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Closed vs. Open Mind-Sets
Researcher Carol Dweck did a series of studies on how people handle adversity, particularly when they face limitations, obstacles, failure, and change. ...
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