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The Man behind the Designated Driver Campaign
In the 1980s, Jay Winsten, a professor at Harvard, had learned about a program in Scandinavian countries called the "designated driver." At ...
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We Find Our Own Stories in the Bible's Stories
In late 2012 seventy-five year old Marion Shurtleff purchased a Bible in a used book store near her home in San Clemente, California. After making her ...
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Half-Truths We Accept as Facts
An article on NPR's (National Public Radio's) website lists 12 common half-truths that many of us have accepted as facts. For instance, various ...
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Compass Helps Crew Members Survive
In 2005 a retired merchant seaman named Waldemer Semenov donated a compass to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. The ordinary and small compass ...
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Ministry to Estranged Parents Started with a Bible Promise
Pamela Hoch helped start the Rachel Foundation, a ministry dedicated to reuniting parents and children who have been torn apart. People often assume that ...
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We Can't Understand a Story apart from the Context
Editor's Note: The following illustration from the book Fill These Hearts shows the need to put the Bible or theological statements into their proper ...
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Premier Hitter Ichiro Suzuki Protects His Baseball Bats
Japanese-born big-leaguer Ichiro Suzuki is one of the best hitters in baseball. Prior to 2012, he led the Major Leagues in regular season hits on seven ...
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Secular Author Tries to "Take the Bible Literally"
A book titled The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible came out a few years ago. It was ...
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Unknown Christian Brings Bibles into North Korea
In their book The Privilege of Persecution, Carl Moeller and David Hegg tell the following story about a courageous believer who has helped their ministry ...
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Trapped Ice Climber Remembers His Father's Words
In June of 1992, Jim Davidson and Mike Price climbed Mt. Ranier. On the way down from the summit, the two climbers fell 80 feet through a snow bridge ...
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