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Hitter Ted Williams Senses Weight of Bats

Ted Williams, the last baseball player to hit better than .400 in a season, died [in July 2002] at the age of 83. "There is no joy in Red Sox nation, ...


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"The Matrix": Unseen Reality

In the science fiction movie, The Matrix, the real world has been taken over by computers that keep humans in bondage by creating a false reality in their ...


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The Point of an Open Mind

"The point of an open mind, like having an open mouth, is to close it on something solid."


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Listening Well Leads to Success

Erik Weihenmayer is blind, yet on May 25, 2001 (Nepal time), he reached the peak of Mt. Everest. Suffering from a degenerative eye disease, he lost his ...


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Discerning the Details

The floor of the Princeton gym was being resurfaced, so Princeton basketball standout (and later U.S. Senator) Bill Bradley had to put in several practice ...


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Mister Rogers: Deep and Simple

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.


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Finding the Real Problem

I was back in my home state of California, working as a nurse in a busy emergency room. We had a regular visitor who tugged at my heart. His name was ...


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Fine Discernment

One night as we were packing up after a concert, we sent a young woman to pick up our children from the home they were staying in. Since the children ...


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When a Simple Majority Won't Do

Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians, to take counsel together, their purpose is not--or should not be--to ascertain what is the mind of the majority ...


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Discernment and Intercession

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.


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