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The Damage Caused by Dehumanizing Labels
Why do normal people sometimes do horrific things to other people? In his book, Less Than Human, Professor David Livingstone Smith explains that even ...
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Two Doctors Start Brawl Over Cotton Swab
It all started with a cotton swab. Dr. Mohan Korgaonkar was the surgeon, and Dr. Kwok Wei Chan was assisting as the anesthesiologist. The nurse stood ...
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Film Critic Can no Longer Tolerate Violent Films
In the 1990s Rod Dreher was working as a professional film critic who reviewed numerous films with graphic violence. But just before the birth of his ...
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Watching TV Show 'Dexter' and the Creep of Sin
Editor's Note: Since it first debuted in 2006, the TV series Dexter has been nominated for 19 Primetime Emmy Awards, five Writers Guild of America ...
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Black Friday Trampling at Walmart
Professor James A. Roberts uses the following true story to illustrate the power of our "worldwide consumer culture" (which he defines as "the ...
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Basketball Star Chris Paul Forgives His Grandfather’s Killers
In April, 2011, Rick Reilly wrote a moving story about forgiveness from the life of Chris Paul, the all-star basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets. ...
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God's Love and Wrath Go Together
Miroslav Volf, a Christian theologian from Croatia, used to reject the concept of God's wrath. He thought that the idea of an angry God was barbaric, ...
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Expert Claims That Self-control Is Better Than Intelligence
After the 2010 tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona, Scientific American published an online article entitled: "What Causes Someone to Act on Violent ...
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Disney Community Rocked by a Murder and a Suicide
It was supposed to be the "perfect" town. After all, it was planned by Disney itself. The town of Celebration, Florida, a 16-acre utopian community ...
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Father of Murdered Son Learns That Forgiveness Is a Daily Choice
In a recent interview in The Sun, Sister Helen Prejean, the author of the book Dead Man Walking, talked about one of her heroes of faith and forgiveness—Lloyd ...
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