'To Bless All Mankind'

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To move beyond past wrongs

David C. Kennedy

As the editorial on the facing page explains, many nations hang on to historic, sometimes even ancient, wrongs done to them by other countries.
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Ending modern wars driven by ancient wrongs

The Monitor's Editorial Board

Scratch below the surface of today’s territorial conflicts and you find leaders who evoke memories of their countries as past victims of aggression by others.
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A prayerful response to #StopSuicide

Ingrid Peschke

Many people have been using the #StopSuicide hashtag on social media to rally around national suicide prevention.
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Two approaches to stopping suicide

John Yemma

A dad I know was pals with his grown son.
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Innocence and the armor of Love

Mary Alice Rose

Recent headlines have focused on the plight of children as both victims and perpetrators of violence in war zones.
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Pulling kids from war’s rubble

<i>The Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board

Within days of each other in August, two news items about children in conflicts caught the world’s attention.
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Divine Love: where mercy meets justice

Elizabeth Mata

The human heart longs to right injustices of all kinds.
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Mercy for the corrupt who come clean?

<i>The Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board

To expose and punish corruption, governments have long relied on tough tools, from wiretaps to time in prison.
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The law that moves us forward

Susan Booth Mack Snipes

I’ve been praying a good deal lately about post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Adaptation and bouncing forward

John Yemma

News can seem to be a nonstop narrative of tragedies and victims: an unceasing flow of children, women, and men routed by war, fleeing drought, epidemics, terrorists, repression.
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The inherent intelligence and ability of children

Debra Corry Brandt

It is refreshing to hear that two American women representing opposing political parties may agree on an approach to education that views children in a new way.
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Melania Trump may share Michelle Obama’s view of children

<i>The Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board

Political pundits jumped all over Melania Trump for parts of her GOP convention speech that sounded very similar to one by Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic convention.