In the closing month of 2008, Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion released these findings: 20% of Americans said they have “heard God’s voice” 55% feel they are protected by a guardian angel 23% say they have witnessed a miraculous physical healing In a similar survey in 2005, 67% of Americans were convinced heaven exists. Dick Staub made an
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We're up at the lake with the family for a few days, and I'm thinking about going into the other room to play Wii with everyone else, watch some baseball maybe, have a little more apple pie… But a competing desire has me thinking about all the writing I haven't been getting done while I'm bounced out of my schedule
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Have you ever wondered about the impact you’re having? I am tonight and mainly it’s because I’m not able to share in someone’s pain. My grandfather is dying and I want to be there, for him, my grandma, and my mom. But he’s too ashamed. So he’s distant. He wouldn’t admit it but he doesn’t believe death is natural. If
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"I am a seven-foot-tall banana for a San Francisco–based fruit delivery company. I ride the train as the banana. I pass out bananas on the streets dressed as the banana. I get an awful lot of hugs as the banana, and more high-fives than anyone really has a right to." "…Sometimes I think that no matter what I write, no
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For the greater purposes of our community here, I offer this short bit adapted from “A Defence of Poesy” by Sir Philip Sidney, 1595. I’m hoping to offer more as time allows, and if you find it helpful (you can find the original text here, and an excellent introduction to Sir Sidney’s defense in Don Williams’ essay, "Christian Poetics, Past
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