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Being Human

A longer and more precise rewording of the title could be, “Saul & How Kings & Governments Get Their People to Murder For Them.” How does one person murder hundreds, thousands, or even millions of other people? They get other people to do it for them, often lots of other

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Being HumanThe Christian Journey

Life is going to have its hardships and its troubles.  It just is.  But there are things we can do to add to our troubles and difficulties in life.  There are places where we hang out, where trouble is more likely to find us. One of the most well-known stories

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Being HumanThe Christian Journey

Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system.  More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged

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Being Human

Hardiness In the last post I wrote about the two elements of trust – competence and character. These two are incredibly important things to look for in anyone we are in a relationship with or work with. If I could only have one other quality in the people that I

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