    “I am not happy, and life is short, so I need to go after this one chance at happiness,” he said, explaining why he was about to do something that was obviously wrong and stupid; that is, obvious to everyone but himself.    “Yes,” said his friend, “life is short, so whatever it […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born 96 years ago today. Â He died April 4, 1968 at the age of thirty-nine, assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. Â Five months earlier, in a sermon to his congregation on November 5, 1967, King said this: You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be.
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Kay Coles James (1949- ) grew up in the segregated South of the 1950’s. Â She and her five brothers lived in a government housing project in one of the poorest black neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia, raised by their single mother. Â This story is from her 1992 book Never Forget (pages 45-47). —————————————— Â Â Â We
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From a letter by C. S. Lewis to his friend Arthur Greeves, December 20, 1943; From The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume II.    Things are pretty bad here.  Minto’s varicose ulcer gets worse and worse, domestic help harder and harder to come by.  Sometimes I am very unhappy, but less so than I
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Somewhere along the line, and the sooner the better, we all need to take a step back from our strong political opinions and remember that we live in a DEMOCRACY, or, to be more precise, a REPUBLIC. That is to say, we make our decisions as by voting—voting for the people who will vote on
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“Taking the First Step to Restore Civility,” by Annie Holmquist, posted September 24, 2020, at: http://www.intellectualtakeout.org . Holmquist is the editor of Intellectual Takeout. ——————————————————    The UPS man stopped by with a couple of packages, and in response to my query informed me that yes, the delivery industry was still in Christmas mode,
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By Randy Alcorn, posted July 1 and 15, 2020, at: http://www.epm.org ———————–    This is the third and final in a series of Bible verses on the impact and importance of our words. The following verses remind us of the importance of speaking words full of both grace and truth, and, that we are
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By Randy Alcorn, posted June 24, 2020, at: http://www.ep    This is the second in a series of Scripture readings on the impact and importance of our words.    The following verses remind us of the importance of actually listening and reading before we respond, both in person and online. Sadly, many of
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Our Tongues Have the Power of Life and Death, by Randy Alcorn, posted June 17, 2020, at: http://www.epm.org ———————–    Years ago I put together a number of Scriptures on the power of our words. Their cumulative weight is stunning. In today’s world of social media, which allows us to publish comments to the
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   (…continued)  Europe today has total religious freedom, but very little religious conviction anymore. Muslim nations have strong religious convictions, but very little sense of religious freedom. The First Amendment has helped the United States maintain this delicate balance, but there are dangers now as there always has been.    First of all,
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