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Encourage the Junior Scientists at Church
David H. Bradstreet, an award-winning scientist and astronomy professor, recounts how his church helped him find his calling in science. Growing up in ...
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Terminal Cancer Patients Question Life's Meaning
William Breitbart, the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, specializes ...
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A Benediction about Serving Wherever You Are
Richard Halverson, former pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland and also the former chaplain of the United States Senate used the ...
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Top CEO Dies Clutching Magazine that Featured Him
Colman Mockler is considered today as the model of an effective CEO. A Harvard Business School graduate with an MBA, he had gone to work for Gillette ...
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Clint Eastwood Admits His Regrets
In an interview with Esquire, the actor and film director Clint Eastwood and his son Scott both agreed that they never look back on life. When Esquire ...
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Founder of Amazon Planned Decades Ahead
If you own stock in Amazon, you get a letter from founder Jeff Bezos each year, reminding you of Amazon's commitment to think long-term. In his 2015 letter ...
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Chief Rabbi: When Judaism Is Easy People Lose Faith
Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, once referenced what he called the "counter-intuitive phenomena of Jewish history"—a phenomena ...
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The Old Preacher's 67,600 Pages of Sermons
In Marilynne Robinson's beautiful novel Gilead, the old preacher John Ames starts digging through a box of sermons in his attic. One day he figures ...
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Ordinary Volunteer Finds Her Leadership Gift
Leadership coach Karen Miller tells the following story about how she and her husband needed to identify and develop new leaders for a new church plant: ...
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We Need a Better Story than Secularism
But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. ...
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