Living Faith
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Living faith
Answering the whys in life’s difficult valleys
Neil Hoffman was home caring for his three oldest sons, Gavin, 5, Josiah, 3, and Landon, 2, while his wife Heather was at the hospital with their newborn Ryden. Dad had just put his children…
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Born dead | Baby defies odds after traumatic delivery
Heather Hoffman was just hours from delivering her fourth child. She was nesting at home. Her husband Neil was vacuuming and doing some other final cleaning chores while they waited Heather’s progression of labor, along…
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Christian writer Margaret Feinberg shares breast cancer struggles, lessons on joy
Vertigo. Anemia. Depression. Receding gums. Early menopause. A double mastectomy. These are just a few of the many terrors that Margaret Feinberg hid from the public after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis in 2013 before age 40.…
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Piercing the darkness | Christian comedian overcomes depression, grief
Chonda Pierce thrives under the bright stage lights. Her clean comedy, tempered with authentic insights on Christian life, resonates with audiences eager for a little comic relief of their own. But more than a decade…
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Street-level worship | Finding church in unlikely places
Robert Cortes spent hours roaming the streets of downtown San Diego as he handed out fliers for a weekly outdoor worship service on the loading dock of a discount grocery store. So he wasn’t surprised…
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Tackling fatherhood | Former Chargers linebacker extols role of Mr. Mom
Billy Ray Smith Jr. was a second-grader playing Pee Wee football when his dad—already a successful NFL defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts—taught him a transformational lesson from the bleachers. “A guy knocks me down…
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Getting past the past
Some days, when the darkness tries to usurp the light, comedian Chonda Pierce remembers the words of her psychologist brother, Mike Courtney. “You can’t afford to go there.” In fact, the siblings—raised in a dysfunctional…
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Acting out | CCT/CYT founders celebrate 35 years of community theater
Thirty-five years ago, Paul Russell stood in the rock-hewn amphitheater as the cast and crew rushed around in preparation of their opening night of “The Sound of Music.” After spending weeks preparing the troupe for…
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