International Women’s Day: The Privilege of Being a Woman
As a young woman, I am discovering what a great privilege it is to be called just that. We, as women, have been beautifully and specially created in God’s image. This means that we reflect several of His characteristics – love and caring, strength and compassion, justice and peace, to name a few. Many women I have met, no... >Read More
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Facing Fear with Courage
We live in a world filled with change and crisis. War, terrorist threats, natural disasters, death, human suffering and abductions are in the news 24/7. How do these events impact people? What effects have you experienced when you've watched images of the Twin Towers go up in flames, US troops engaged in battle in Iraq, suicide bombings in London,...... >Read More
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Global Food Crisis Hits Home
Happy with your grocery bills these days? Do those gasoline pump meters seem to whir like Vegas slot machines, except you never hit the jackpot?
The two issues are not unrelated and they’re affecting pocketbooks and bellies at home and around the globe. Some Westerners might react with detached shock to stories of food riots in places like...... >Read More
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Giving Can Improve Your Health; Science Says So
Want happiness and fulfillment in life? Then practice giving, advises an influential medical professor.
“It really is good to be good,” claims Stephen Post, Ph.D., professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “Science says it is so.”
Post and coauthor Jill Neimark present evidence in their recent book, Why Good Things...... >Read More
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Failure to Render Aid
In the wake of the horror and suffering of the recent terrorist attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, and recently the attacks on London, it has been heartwarming to see so many acts of heroism, beginning with the men and women who met a hellish death as they raced up the stairs of the World Trade Center to save... >Read More
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Does God Care?
We’ve watched our TV screens in horror. The pain and agony of fellow human beings in the midst of disaster goes beyond our comprehension. We grapple with the magnitude of it. Our minds scramble to make sense of it and we simply cannot. Opinions fly from every side. “Its God’s judgment,” some say. Others say, “It’s a sign of... >Read More
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Why is There Suffering in the World?
We've seen the photographs of smoke and rubble where the World Trade Center used to stand. We watched in horror as a 767 airliner carefully banked and crashed straight into one of the towers. We are shaken, shocked and grieving, unable to take our eyes away from the images of smoke and ash, unable to begin to count the... >Read More
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Phan Thi Kim Phuc
This is the story of a changed life, as told to Power... >more
The God Who Sees
In the video "Tears: Women in Afghanistan," produced before September 11, an... >more
What Do You Fear?
