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Persecuted Nigerian Pastor Praises God
The Nigerian city of Jos sits on Africa's great fault line between the Muslim north and Christian, and thus has faced terrible things in recent years. ...
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'The Perfect Storm' Sometimes Hits Our Lives
When the Andrea Gail left Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts on September 20, 1991, and headed into the North Atlantic, no one could have known that this ...
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Michael J. Fox Learns from Parkinson's Disease
The Jewish actor Michael J. Fox admits that he's struggled with the reality of his Parkinson's disease. Fox said, "Coping with the relentless ...
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Adversity Made Abraham Lincoln an Effective Leader
The movie Lincoln provides a glimpse into some of the challenges that President Lincoln faced while he was in office. But the level of suffering this ...
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Baseball Star Finds Christ through Suffering & Failure
Barry Zito was once known as one of the most dominating pitchers in Major League baseball. But in 2010 Zito had reached his lowest point: He was removed ...
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A Family Loses and Finds What Matters
An episode of This American Life (the popular NPR radio show) focused on a young woman named Sara who was sharing her family's public fall from grace. ...
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Field Goal Kicker Learns from His Greatest Misses
On August 31, 2002, Phil Brabbs, a placekicker with the University of Michigan, lined up for the most important field goal attempt in his career. With ...
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Children's Book Character Carries His "Sadness Shield"
We all seem to need a strategy for coping with the experience of grief. In the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where ...
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Every Person Has Experienced Heartache
I don't think any of us get off this planet without suffering enormously. And one of the chief ways we suffer is by loving people who are incredibly ...
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Children's Writer Says Children Grow Through Pain and Loss
Author Ken Gire writes: The children's writer Katherine Paterson wrote a book based on her son David's loss of a childhood friend. It was his ...
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