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Erich Fromm, a modern psychologist coined this immortal maxim: “If you are what you are and you lose what you have, who are you?”   The greatest rock n’ roll group ever, The Beatles, composed a song, “Money can’t buy me…

If I ruled the world, simplifying Christmas would be on my to-do list.
After all, if Jesus is the reason for the season, how on earth has the birth of our Savior born among animals been morphed into the biggest…

When I first thought of comparing the Occupy Wall Street movement, with its slogan “we are the 99%,” to Jesus’s famous parable of the Lost Sheep, I decided against it, thinking it would surely be a misinterpretation the parable and…

“Actions speak louder than words.” “One picture is worth a thousand words.” “Talk is cheap.” There are lots of different sayings in the English language that generally express the same thing: words alone don’t do the necessary job of communicating,…

Gift-Giving Got You Down? Model Yourself on Mary

by Cynthia L. Costello December 8, 2011

The shoulders tense up. The list is beside the computer, and it’s Cyber Monday! What if I can’t find what they want? How do I make sure I give the same value to each one? What if it doesn’t get…

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