Thirty minutes from our home stands Armstrong Grove, a 240-acre, old-growth redwood preserve. For movie buffs, it's the setting for the Star Wars flick, Return of the Jedi,
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Imagine walking into your kitchen, and being met by a giant snake, larger than you! Singer and author Carolyn Arends tells the story of a missionary couple from Africa
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St. Telemachus was a monk who lived in the fourth century in Asia Minor. While tilling his garden one day, he sensed God telling him to go to Rome.
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Unquestionably, the dominant hero of my childhood was number 7, center fielder for the New York Yankees, Mickey Mantle. The greatest switch-hitter of all time, he was perhaps the most exciting baseball player ever to watch.
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Christmas Day, 1863. America’s poet laureate, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, found himself in a deep state of depression.
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Don’t you love surprises? Years ago, when my dad turned 75, my sister and I concocted a scheme to surprise him.
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At a Christmas service, the preacher invited all the kids to the front for a short children's message. He began by describing an animal with antlers and a bushy tail,
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The sign clearly read “No more than 15 people or 3000 pounds.” But that didn’t stop 26 cheerleaders
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