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Unstrained Mercy

“The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” –William Shakespeare Kenny Rogers’ old ballad, “Coward of the County,” tells the story of a boy...

FOMO Versus JOMO

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.” Matthew 6:28-29 I suspect that like me, you’ve heard of the acronym FOMO. It seems to have come into usage...

Made in the Streets: An Introduction and an Invitation

On August 3, 1995, missionary educators Charles and Darlene Coulston held an event at a local church in Eastleigh, a neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was for kids who lived on the streets, primarily in the adjoining Mathare slums. The Coulstons were amazed...

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I’ve always been fascinated by black holes, which NASA’s website describes as “a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out.” Imagine an object with a gravitational field so intense that no light, matter, or radiation can escape its...