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It's All About Money?

Paul Dinin, an employee of Interland, a web-hosting company in Atlanta, was asked what were his prized possessions in life. Dinin, a high school dropout, ...


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A Plan for Everyone

Simon Birch (a movie based on the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving) is the story of a 12-year-old boy named Simon Birch who, despite his physical ...


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Humility Defined

What is humility? It is that habitual quality whereby we live in the truth of things: the truth that we are creatures and not the Creator; the truth that ...


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Fuel of Happiness

British theologian C.S. Lewis described happiness 50 years ago in terms that make even more sense today in our commuter-driven society:

A car is made to ...

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Content with God's Timing

In his autobiography, Buck O'Neill tells of being a black man who played professional baseball before African-Americans were allowed to play in the all-white ...


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George Clooney's Insomnia

In Men's Journal, writer Doug Stanton talks about actor George Clooney's obsession with work:

"Most of the time," [Clooney] says, "I ...

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Dedicated to Futility

"One of the things that really attracts me about mountaineering is its total pointlessness. So I've dedicated my life to it."

—Tom ...


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Justice without God?

In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis offers one philosophical explanation for the existence of God:

In the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in ...

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Your Part in Life’s Drama

In his novel, Edge of Eternity, Randy Alcorn compares our lives on earth to those of the characters in a novel. He writes:

Each character is placed in ...

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Albert Einstein and Mysteries

In Albert Einstein's early days physicists had scratched their heads for some 50 years over the unexplainable orbit of the planet Mercury. Newton's theories ...


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