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Soul Surfer — This Year’s The Blind Side
Bethany Hamilton has an extraordinary story to tell. Working hard to enter the ranks of professional surfing, by the age…
Yearly Archives: 2011
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Lent, A Time to Receive Forgiveness and to Forgive Others
Editors Note: The five previous article spoke of Lent as a time to “open wide our hearts to Christ”, a time…
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Poem: “Shrouded”
Shrouded Woman of the veil, exhaling silence, let me breathe in the presence of Almighty God: Father-Mother of Abraham, Isaac,…
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Hiking With the Blessed Mother
I’ve always been pretty athletic, but my first introduction to hiking was not especially enjoyable. It occurred during Survival Training…
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The Potential Inside: Not Your Father’s Christian Film
In the age of gratuitous Hollywood sex and violence it’s not surprising that people are starved for family-friendly entertainment. This…
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How is Weight Watchers Like NFP?
In the late summer of 2000 I entered the doorway of the nearest Weight Watchers and tipped the scale at…
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Protecting Chavez, Endangering America?
President Obama’s recent trip to three Latin American nations was absolutely surreal. For one thing, he launched a war against…
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The Price of Religious Freedom
In his engaging new biography, Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story, journalist Howard Means scrubs away nearly…
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Ambitious Turkey
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutolu grandiloquently proclaimed a few days ago that, “If the world is on fire, Turkey is…
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Six Reasons Why I Don’t Participate in Friday Fish Frys
By the time you’re done reading this column, you’ll want to either join my bandwagon or run me out of…