Are You Listening?
The homeroom teacher of a “Senior Honor Students” class once gave them a graduation gift in advance … The students were permitted one unexcused absence as long as it didn’t […]
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How Like Me My Brother Is!
On the night of November 4, 1940, the City of Coventry, in England, already battered in several fierce raids by the Germans, was subjected to a continuous, 9-hour hail of
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The Freest Person Who Ever Lived
Fashions in language come and go. But it’s likely that the phrase “stressed out” will remain fashionable for a long time to come. Some social scientists say the “stressed out”
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Laugh Clown, Laugh
There is a bumper-sticker you might have seen that reads, “God is simply fun.” Not many of us, perhaps, are accustomed to thinking of God in that way. Yet… God
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Even Santa Claus!
Rembrandt did a painting which portrays the Biblical story of the storm on the Sea of Galilee. Perhaps some of you have seen it. The little ship occupied by Jesus
You Make Me Happy
A CBS correspondent has noted that America is “highly anniversarial.” Hardly a day goes by, he says, when he doesn’t see a Press Release or two, triumphantly announcing some anniversary
One Man’s Family
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a living legend of love for the poor and oppressed and the homeless and people dying in the streets. Not only was she directly involved
