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SARS - Beyond Our Control, But Not Beyond God's

By now, nearly everyone has heard of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). If you’ve watched all-news channels like CNN or Fox News over the past month with their alternating images of people hurrying through airports wearing surgical masks and bombs exploding over Baghdad, you’d think there were only two news stories worth reporting: the... >Full Story

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Taking Action to Change the World

Brad does it. Leonardo does it. Oprah does it. Bono practically started it in this generation. Celebrity philanthropy seems to be gaining more and more momentum. It’s not hard to envy their wallets, huge spheres of influence and the stamps in their passports, and be left feeling inadequate, not sure if our voice will ever be loud enough to... >Read More



Phan Thi Kim Phuc

This is the story of a changed life, as told to Power to Change Ministries. Born: Trang Bang, South Vietnam, 1963 It is a photograph that few are likely to forget. A little girl, her clothes seared from her body by a Napalm bomb, runs screaming from her burning village. Her arms are outstretched in terror and pain. For many, this photograph...... >Read More



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



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



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



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



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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