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Naval Ships Test the 'Integrity of the Hull'

Naval officers often refer to the "integrity of the hull." When a submarine comes out of dry dock, the first exercise is called a "sea ...


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Suicide Victim Can't Find One Kind Person

The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting the city of San Francisco with Marin County by spanning the Golden Gate Strait, is one of our world's most recognizable ...


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Man Finally Finds Meaning in his Father's Murder

In 1986, a Christian worker named Steve Saint was traveling through the country of Mali when his car broke down. Stranded and alone, Steve tried to rent ...


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Heart Attack Victims Find Meaning in Trial

It's hard to find meaning in the midst of tragedy. But in her book The How of Happiness, researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky shows that people who find some ...


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Problem of Evil Is Main Reason for not Trusting God

More people point to the problem of evil and suffering as their reason for not believing in God than any other—it is not merely a problem, it is ...


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Doctor Learns How to Be a Patient

Skye Jethani writes in “Dreaded Exam”:

When I was 18, my father, a doctor, learned what it was like to be on the receiving end of medical care. ...


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Kay Warren's Advice for Comforting Grievers

Rick and Kay Warren's son Matthew committed suicide at the age of 27 after a long struggle with mental illness. About a year after his death, Kay ...


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We Want Happiness but Suffering Forms Us

We live in a culture awash in talk about happiness. In one three-month period, more than 1,000 books were released on Amazon on that subject.

But notice ...


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The ‘Fearful Gift’ of Suffering

New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks penned an insightful piece about the "fearful gift" of suffering/ He talks about the irony of our ...


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Jewish Woman Hears of the Suffering Yeshua

John Lennox (an author and professor of mathematics at Oxford University) tells a story about touring Eastern Europe and meeting a Jewish woman from South ...


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