We’ve all been there. We’re hanging out with friends, mingling after church, or attending a networking event, yet despite our best efforts, conversation falls flat. This can happen for many reasons, but generally, the two primary issues are either that our conversation partners drop the ball, or that we ourselves can’t think of anything to
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My new (to me) car is a 2014 commuter. Nothing about it is glamorous. A co-worker has affectionately referred to the paint color as casket blue, if that tells you anything. But my car has a built-in CD player, and I consider that dated feature worth commenting on. The plan is simple. Seek out well-loved CDs
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Most Americans have a “live-and-let-live” attitude toward morality. “Does it hurt anyone else?” Americans ask. If the answer is no, then the action is morally acceptable. We see this moral code play out in many current U.S. cultural debates: sexuality, abortion, marijuana. “My body, my choice,” people say, or “love is love,” both statements which
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Clickclickclickclick. The mower wouldn’t start. Normally, a muttered prayer and a few more turns of the key would get the old beast rumbling, but not this time. A new battery didn’t solve the problem, either. It was really and truly dead. With my yard approaching jungle-like conditions, I had no choice but to buy a
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Have you ever gone through some of life’s challenges and felt like you were alone in them? Sure, people knew that you experienced a breakup, or that you had a miscarriage, or that you were losing a close family member to cancer, or even that you were weathering financial difficulties. Yet when you came to
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Easter this year delivered some good news – or more accurately, some Good News. On Easter Monday, April 6, as the Artemis II spacecraft crew prepared to lose communication with NASA’s mission control while passing behind the moon, astronaut Victor Glover delivered this message back to earth: As we get close to the nearest point to the
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