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This above all
Being true to yourself does not mean indulging or pampering yourself to the neglect of others; nor does it mean that whatever you believe is the right thing all the time. It simply means you’ll be better off…
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Without this, it doesn’t matter what you want
“We want what we want.” I’ve heard that phrase used as…
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I believed them
Each of my kids has lied to me, face to face. This is an entirely normal part of growing up. Sometimes…
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What a tangled web we weave…
Whenever we deceive others, in order to make things better for ourselves in the moment, we deceive ourselves most of all. The real lie is thinking that by…
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Don’t Get Impeached
For Nixon, it wasn’t so much the campaign to discredit his opponents (although illegal), it was the…
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Knowing isn’t Growing
An easy way to identify a source of anxiety is to look at truths we know…but don’t…
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How Much Do You Care?
“How do you explain to a little child why you have to go to jail? Coretta has developed an answer. She tells them that daddy has gone to jail to help the people.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) One night during the Montgomery bus boycott, Dr. King received a late phone call just as he […]
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A New Foundation
“Maybe the foundation for a new Birmingham will [not] be in mortar and stone, concrete and steel, or industry and commerce, but rather in the memory [of] the innocent blood of these precious children of God.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) When four little girls were killed in the horrible bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist […]
