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U2's Bono on David's Cave of Despair
In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine, U2's lead singer Bono talks about how he's learning to connect with David's honest laments and ...
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Frederick Douglass Challenged Christians to Live Without Hypocrisy
In his 77 years, Frederick Douglass, America's most famous abolitionist, delivered thousands of speeches, wrote three autobiographies, started newspapers, ...
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14-Year-Old Decides Against Assisted Suicide
An article from First Things relates the story of Valentina Maureira, a fourteen-year old from Chile who suffered from cystic fibrosis, and desperately ...
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Mountaineer Felt Grief in His Physical Heart
Men's Health portrayed the life of a man who believed his heart attack was caused primarily by grief. Acclaimed mountaineer Conrad Anker and his team ...
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Haitians Devastated by Earthquake Keep Hope in God
Editor's Note: Author Andy Crouch originally used this story to illustrate that we don't need to be enslaved to technology. You could delete the ...
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Chinese Christian won't Make Jesus Bow Down to the State
Derek Lam is a courageous young Christian leader living in Hong Kong. In an article he wrote for The New York Times about the suppression of human rights ...
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When Suffering, Find Empathy in the Cross
We do not always get a simple, satisfying answer to all of our questions about suffering. In a 2014 testimony about his experience with a debilitating ...
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Actor John Hamm: 'It's Not Weak to Say, I Need Help.'
Actor Joe Hamm (star of the show Mad Men) did a stint in rehab for an alcohol addiction. Hamm confessed in an interview, "I'm certainly damaged—there's ...
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Heartbreak Looks Like Drug Withdrawal in the Brain
A few years ago, Yeshiva University neuroscientist Lucy Brown and her research team distributed flyers across several campuses in the New York area to ...
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Former Muslim Follows Jesus and Willingly Loses Everything
Open Doors, a ministry working with persecuted Christians around the globe, shared the following true story about a Muslim convert to Christ. Bagus (not ...
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