April 4, 2005
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From the Editors
As our staff sat in the planning meeting for this issue, no one was readily volunteering to write this "Upfront" introduction.
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"THE MAJORITY OF AMERICAN TEENS
believe in God and worship in coventional congregations, but their religious knowledge is remarkably shallow and they have a tough time expressing the difference that faith makes in their lives, a new survey says.
Integrity is actually the discoverable and demonstrable nature of everyone. It flows from the connection we all have with one common Creator.
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For Paul Grimes, there's only one honest place to begin anything from a new day to a new career. It's with the spiritual self-knowledge that you're always putting God first.
Business consultant Madelon Miles discusses three stages of spiritual attainment that help promote ethics in the workplace.
Sometimes our prayers are protecting and healing us before we even realize it.
When tempted to obsess about long, uncertain "to do" list, this writer made another kind of list that focused on gaining new views of God.
Sometimes we don't make major personal growth until some challenge forces us to go deeper in prayer.
TO THE CURRENT DISCOURSE
on teen depression and suicide I feel compelled to add a comment or two.
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SOUTH AFRICANS ARE TAKING THE BIBLE STORY OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN TO HEART.
A little over a year ago, a sore developed on my leg.
Early one evening, while traveling on a subway train, I suddenly found myself struggling to keep from losing consciousness.
One afternoon, I was in our pasture attending to one of our horses, when all of a sudden the horse kicked me in the eye.
JESUS TAUGHT PEOPLE ABOUT TRUE HAPPINESS AS THE NATURAL BYPRODUCT OF SPIRITUAL ATTAINMENT.
