“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Complacency
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Christianity
“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.”
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Skinny Dipping Swindlers
The next time a strange woman shows up at Stephen Amaral’s door and wants to go skinny dipping in his backyard pool, the Crossville, TN resident will think twice about …
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Michael Jordan’s Paycheck
Unfortunately, many people’s talk is cheap. They say one thing and then do another which makes their promises as empty as their integrity. If the commitments they’ve made might end …
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From time to time, Christians find themselves looking for a new church home. Perhaps their old church was dying or maybe they just moved to another city; either way, they …
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Blaise Pascal on Beliefs
“I believe those witnesses who get their throats cut.”
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“I do not know of anyone who died as a believer exercising self-control who wished he had been an atheist or had lived an indulgent life, but I have known …
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Regret Immortalized
In the violent world of African war where thousands of people shot bullets, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter shot film. The dangerous vocation of wartime photography put him in life-and-death …
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“I’m Alive…Really!”
It’s the phone call no parent wants to receive. Ever. But on Thursday, February 28, 1991, Cecil and Ruth were both informed that their son, PFC. Clayton Carpenter, was killed …
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