916 posts by Sarah

That Day Your Church Provides Homes to 160 Children Without Families

have often heard people talk about "how the church could change the world"; how the church could eliminate poverty or wipe out literacy or [insert other favorite cause] if only it would rally its people and resources toward need. Rarely, though, do you hear of local churches that take that statement out of the theoretical and attach it to real life like this one does.

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That Day a Black Teenager Saved a KKK Member From an Angry Mob

Keshia Thomas Black Teenager Saves KKK member from angry mob. I knew what it was like to be hurt. The many times that that happened, I wish someone would have stood up for me.

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Spammers, Hate Mail and Online Bullies: What You Can Do About Them

I don't know if you've noticed, but the internet has given a lot of cowards a false sense of bravery. Which is I guess why they've been granted so many complimentary nicknames: spammers, bullies...trolls.

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That Day a Stranger Folded YOUR Laundry

My laundry had been occupying two big dryers in the building’s basement laundry room all afternoon while I ran errands and juggled conference calls. But instead of finding it piled in a heap on a bench, as usually happens when another tenant is impatient for dryer space, I saw an older woman serenely folding my towels, sheets and underwear.

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5 Lies You’ve Been Told About the Poor

1. Anyone who works hard enough in America will have a great life. And if you don't have a great life, then you lack the will, integrity or intelligence to succeed. 2. The poor are unemployed. 3. Poor equals black. 4. The poor refuse to work. 5. Education necessarily remedies poverty.

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