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We Can't Pay

I took my two daughters, Abby and Flannery, out to get something fun to drink at a coffee stand. Abby got an apple juice, and Flannery got a mango surprise. ...


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Worldly Achievements Not Important

The late Henri Nouwen, a best-selling author and professor, recalls his first days at L'Arche, a community for the mentally and physically disabled, ...


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Jim Rhodes: God's Complainer

Driving through Mineral Wells, Texas, one afternoon in 1994, Jim Rhodes noticed many buildings standing vacant due to the shutdown of a local military ...


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The Crusade Against Slavery

Evangelical abolitionists have received high praise from secular commentators. For example, nineteenth-century historian W.E.H. Lecky said, "The unweary, ...


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Hope Is the Basis

It is not the way we deal with our human situation that is the basis for hope--hope is the basis for how we deal with our human situation.


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Long Road Home

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.


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Actions Still Speak Loudest

Here is a little rule I have come to believe: the more dramatic and pious we become about out faith, the more likely it is that we are trying to please ...


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The Cross, Not the Scales

The repeated promises in the Qur'an of the forgiveness of a compassionate and merciful Allah are all made to the meritorious, whose merits have been ...


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Silencing the Foolish

Oh brethren, what abundance of good works are before us, and how few of them do we undertake to do. I know the world expects more of us than we do ourselves, ...


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No Escape from Other People

Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder ... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker. ... There is no escape--man drags ...


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