By Dennis Prager, at http://www.PragerU.com (October 21, 2018). ———————————————– Race and ethnicity have defined every nation on earth. Except one: the United States of America. It is defined by values. So, to understand America, you have to understand American values. They are: “E Pluribus Unum” “Liberty” “In God We Trust.” […]
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Among the papers of Abraham Lincoln that were found after his death, there were several notes to himself, perhaps jotted down to be used in later speeches. No one knew when or why Lincoln wrote this note (pictured above), but it is characteristic of his profound simplicity. As I would not be a
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By Eric Metaxas, June 22, 2016 blog at: http://www.breakpoint.org John Stonestreet and I talk quite often on BreakPoint about the importance of fathers. And when we do, we usually point to statistics that reveal that in terms of education, delinquency, drug abuse, and sex and pregnancy, young people who have no father fare worse
TWO OLD STORIES: A woman whose tongue was sharp and unkind was accused of starting a rumor. She was brought before the village rabbi to be reprimanded, but she protested: “What I said was all in fun. I was only joking. Besides, it was others in the village who carried my words forth.
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Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) English journalist, author, media personality, satirist “I may, I suppose, pass for being a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets– that’s fame. I can fairly easily earn enough money to qualify for admission to the higher slopes of the Internal Revenue– that’s success. Furnished with
3278) Jesus is Everything Read More »
Above Painting: For He Had Great Possessions, 1894, George Frederic Watts (British, 1817–1904) ————————————- As Jesus was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one
3277) Good News / Bad News (2/2) Read More »
A certain ruler asked Jesus, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your
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Andree Seu Peterson is my favorite columnist. She writes a column for World, a Christian news magazine. Every month, she selects a little snippet of her life to contemplate upon, and then she writes a page about it. She is about my age, so she writes about many of the same things I
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Pictured above: Sugar plantations utilized some of the most brutal and deadly systems of enslaved labor in history. The unforgiving pace of the harvest of the sugar cane, and the dangerous mill work in the processing of the sugar, resulted in an average life expectancy of just 7 to 9 years for enslaved workers. ———————————–
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Based on a June 3, 2026 article at: www.breakpoint.org —————————————– On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, a black woman, was riding a city bus home from work. She was seated in the back rows designated for black riders; but the front seats were full, and a white man needed a
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