The great challenge of Burmese democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi, “Use your liberty to promote ours”...
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Zacchaeus is NOT my favorite character in scripture. The guy is a stumpy conman, wheedling his way through life. Corrupt. Unlikable. Nasty.
Too bad he's my grandfather.
And he might be yours too.
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How we understand poverty determines how we engage with the poor.
My friend Sam is too young and unstable to have a kid. Now she's pregnant. She is with a guy who drinks and gambles when he gets money. She dropped out of high school, and her job prospects are not rosy.
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The ongoing fight against
Obamacare, the ridiculous obsession with disparaging the important role
of government in a society, and endless quest to try to make Government
as small as possible is surely a symptom of dementia.
Because I live in the country you Republicans are striving for. It's called Cambodia.
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I perched on the plastic stool and nodded towards the broad black sewer that runs along the edge of the slum where I live.
"Is that canal dangerous?" I asked innocently, simply meaning to make conversation.
The woman's eyes filled with tears and I realized I had asked the wrong thing.
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