Living faith
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Bags of blessings | Young teen uses brain tumor experience to bring healing to others
You won’t find words like resection, anesthesiologist, magnetoencephalography and pilocytic astrocytoma on a second-grade spelling test, yet they quickly became…
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Local teen shows Soles4Souls
In many ways Tiffany Barbera is like any average Southern Californian middle-schooler. She likes skateboarding and dreams of playing volleyball…
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Joni Eareckson Tada: Suffering is sacred
Joni Eareckson Tada was a talented teenager who enjoyed hiking, horseback riding, and swimming. Then, at the age of 17,…
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Art at the center of life with Down Syndrome
People with different ability levels need the arts, and the arts need them, too. Katie Blind has sung and danced…
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From rejection to redemption | Country artist uses broken past to communicate through words and music
Alone in her tiny apartment, Mary James replayed the conversation over and over in her head. She had listened quietly…
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Former drug smuggler says God called him to rescue others
Ahmad Faraj* was 16 when he overheard his parents plotting to kill him because of his Christian faith. “We have…
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Pursuing people | Serial entrepreneur uses businesses skills to serve inner city
As soon as Estean Lenyoun heard the ding-ding rattle through the service station where 25th Street intersected at Market, he…
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The smartest man I ever met
The smartest man I ever met died last year. I still can’t believe he is gone. Daily I think of…
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Just a biscuit and a blanket
Brittney Hanvey says she doesn’t quite know what made her pull over to the side of the road back in…
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Cooking up joy | Food Network chef rediscovers life’s value after deep sorrow
Her mom’s phone rang busy. Beep. Beep. Beep. Melissa d’Arabian had just returned to the University of Vermont after having…