New York City—my home—is a cramped, chaotic cacophony of blaring sirens and swarming, murmuring crowds, and not to mention expensive. In Houston or Los Angeles, thick, slithering, concrete highways wrap around almost every neighborhood. London and São Paulo are grey with small blotches of green. In Johannesburg, Africa’s city of gold, crime lurks in alleyways...
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How might you describe your conversations with God? What words would you use to characterize your tone or approach? For those of us who have spent any amount of time within a Christian subculture, our prayer lives are often the first thing to get stale – we shift from true piety in our prayers to...
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I love Lucy! Except he didn’t— and that is the great grief at the heart of the new film, “Being the Ricardos.” Having grown up with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, watching them, their family and friends on television as a boy, it is a story we assume we know pretty well. But like...
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Sometimes, humans can be stubborn. Most times, humans will be stubborn. I have always had to fight the temptation of pride. When I was younger, I would be under the impression that my way of doing something was the best way of doing something. However, when my dad corrected me, or tried to tell me...
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“Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys….” Most of life is autobiographical, and that’s as true of me as of anyone. Simply said, I am my grandfather’s grandson, and he was a hero to me for all the days of my life. I still remember seeing him ride off on his horse...
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The TV won’t stop talking. I hear so many words – terrible news stories, shallow comedy shows, meaningless reality programs, this celebrity this, that sports game that – following me wherever I go. It’s on all day at work, my phone tells me what Fox News has to say, I get email updates, and ESPN...
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