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"A Christmas Story": Mom Shows Mercy to Naughty Son
A Christmas Story is a movie about the many challenges of a boy named Ralphie. All adults, including Santa Claus, seem to conspire against Ralphie's ...
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God Celebrates Our Arrival
I remember being touched by the popular song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon." It tells of a man who's been sent to prison. He's served his time ...
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Marriage: Going the Distance
In Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas notes that there are trees in Washington State's northern Cascades that are hundreds of years old. One tree in particular ...
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Moving Forward Means Leaving Behind
After the Civil War, in an incident recounted by Charles Flood in Lee: The Last Years, Robert E. Lee visited a woman who took him to the remains of a ...
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Resentful Husband Retreats
I collect old newspapers. I was humored by a story in a 1930s edition of the Chicago Herald Examiner about a husband and a wife. The article, "Man ...
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"The Straight Story": Yearning for Reconciliation
The movie The Straight Story is based on a true story and chronicles the pilgrimage of a 73 year-old man to mend a broken relationship with his brother, ...
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Old Wounds Resurfacing
When my mother-in-law was first married, she was in a serious car accident that caused her to be thrown into the windshield (it was in the days before ...
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Paying Others to Apologize
"It's much easier for a Westerner to say 'sorry' than compared with a Chinese," claims Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociology professor at ...
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Thief Redeemed by Love
The movie Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, opens with a vagabond curled up on a stone bench on a desolate French street corner. ...
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Holocaust Victim Forgives Captor
Corrie Ten Boom and her family secretly housed Jews in their home during WW II. Their "illegal" activity was discovered, and Corrie and her sister Bessie ...
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