19 “Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? 20 Do you make him leap like the locust?” . . . 26 Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? 27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts …
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On December 1, 1955, a tired black seamstress named Rosa Parks defied what was regarded as a polite custom when she refused to surrender her seat to a white man. Under the “Jim Crow” system of racial discrimination, her Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver had the legal right to move her farther back in the bus …
Late one evening, a woman knocked at Father Damien de Veuster’s door. Nervously, she whispered a warning into his ear then fled into the darkness. What she told him was sobering: that night, pagan incantation rites against his life were being conducted in a burial cave. Yet undaunted by the threat, he walked for an …
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Simone Weil, the French philosopher, displayed an uncommon clarity when it came to exposing human evil. Having seen firsthand the horrors that engulfed Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, she was well acquainted with ordinary people’s capacity for wickedness and gave much thought to how this could be. One of her most startling conclusions was …
Pastor Samuel Willard strode up the center aisle of Boston’s Third Church as the congregation sang a psalm. It was an official day of fasting and prayer for Bostonians. But for Samuel Sewall, it would also be a day of personal repentance. As Willard passed, he paused just long enough to receive a note from …
Even diehard Apple aficionados had to admit recently that the frenzy over iPads had gone too far when a 17 year-old in China sold his kidney on the black market to buy the coveted device. According to People’s Daily Online, Xiao Zheng, who lives in the southern province of Guangdong, received the equivalent of $3,300 …