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During the 1950s, a small diner in my hometown posted a series of sayings on the walls above the horseshoe-shaped counters.
Viewers around the world may watch the 2006 Winter Olympic games in Torino, Italy, with a different perspective than ever before.
One of my favorite passages in the Bible is from Psalms: “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

An Olympic ideal

For all the complexity and commercialization swirling around the run up to the Olympic Games, there remains at the heart of the Games a wonderful, and wonderfully simple, ideal: the pursuit of excellence.
Japan has been known for decades as an economic giant—an Asian tiger.
My unhappy marriage had ended and the divorce was final.
When I was 28 years old, I became head coach of the football team for Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.
Don’t ever doubt that your prayers for a hostage’s safety—or for the safety of anyone who may be in some other kind of danger anywhere in the world—can make a difference.
Over the centuries since the Bible reported on Noah and the building of his ark, many people have risked life and limb in an effort to find out whether there was a real ark, where it finally landed, and if any trace of the great ship remains.
When I first heard the news stories about avian flu, I prayed.
Many of us are concerned about the future.
When our daughters were young, and I was a stay-at-home mom, I spent many hours volunteering at their elementary school.