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A COMMERCIAL I'VE SEEN A FEW TIMES ON TV RECENTLY SHOWS a series of tiny vignettes: A pedestrian steps off the curb, unwittingly in danger, and the stranger next to him pulls him to safety. Several more incidents follow where strangers help other strangers in small and sometimes tender ways.
LIMA, PERU. "¡BUENO!" OR IN ENGLISH, "GOOD!" IT'S AN EXPRESSION THAT punctuates a lot of conversations in Latin America.
SEVEN SYNONYMS FOR GOD. ONLY SEVEN? The Bible calls God by many names, including Father, Shepherd, Elohim, The Great I AM.
WHEN I WAS A KID, I REMEMBER LEARNING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS in my Protestant Sunday School class. The church I grew up in stressed the importance of the Commandments, and when my teacher told me I must love God more than anyone or anything, I just knew I was a sinner.
RECENTLY MY DAUGHTER ASKED IF I KNEW ANY SONGS WITH THE WORD baby in them for her friend's baby shower. After coming up with only a couple from memory, I took the natural next step: Google search.
SOME DAYS I REALLY HAVE TO WONDER WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. Can anything surprise me? Twenty-four-hour news cycles, the shenanigans of celebrities, the vagaries of politics, and cataclysmic world crises—all going on simultaneously, and all at what feels like warp speed.
PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW. PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW: If God exists, who is He or She—or It? The world's religions provide countless explanations.
"LOOK AT THAT TREE!!!!!!" "Did you see the sunset last night? I cried, it was so beautiful!" "You could have heard a pin drop during the violin solo. Breathless.
2008! Really? Wow. Doesn't seem possible, right? Yet, as we say goodbye to 2007, we find ourselves with another year rolling out before us.
WHAT DO YOU SAY WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS ON JULY 8 NEXT YEAR? Or, how about October 21? Or May 11? Sound bizarre? Thought of purely in terms of Christmas as December 25—something most of the Christian world has been attuned to for centuries—it certainly does! But, of course, Christmas is more than tinsel, trees, and gift-giving. It's more than a cozy time for family and friends to gather and spread good cheer.