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In the World — June 2, 2013

By Christy Barritt   News Media Considered Less Reliable Recently the Pew Research Center released its annual report on the state of the news media. Not only did the report show that staffing in most news organizations is decreasing, it also showed that the public is losing its faith in most news outlets. Seventy-two percent […]

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Building Marriages That Last

By Amy Simon   Marriages fail every day. Christian and non-Christian couples struggle to keep their commitments to stay together until separated by death. Dysfunctional and broken marriages cause untold heartache not only for the adults involved, but also for children.  Christians know the institution of marriage is ordained by God (Genesis 2:24) and “should […]

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Heaven’s Heroes

By Alan W. Dowd   My wife and I were reorganizing our bookshelves—another wild weekend at the Dowd house—when I came across a little book titled Love Everlasting. Someone had given it to us on our wedding day and it had been sitting on the shelf for the better part of a decade. As I […]

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Getting Along Starts with Me

By Guest Columnist Danielle Metz   I am a wife, a homemaker, and by the time you read this, a mother for the first time. While I would like to think our home life is somewhat like Leave It to Beaver, it is not. As all relationships between humans go, we slip up, we mess […]

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The illustrating man

By Dr. Charlie W. Starr   One of the most underrated writers in the history of American literature died in 2012. Ray Bradbury was born in 1920. He published his first story in the late 40s and continued to publish novels and stories and write for film and television in every decade thereafter. That might […]