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Faith Does Not Require Me to Pretend I Know Everything About God

How Do We Know What God Wants? Behind centuries of religious teachings, traditions, and institutions lies a difficult question: how do human beings know anything about God? Somewhere in every religious tradition, people claim to have encountered, received, or understood something divine. Others preserve those experiences through teachings, sacred texts, and practices. That does not

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Your Partner Chose You—That Does Not Mean You Stop Choosing Each Other

Commitment Is Not Ownership Your partner is not your possession. She is someone who chooses to share her life with you, just as you choose to share yours with her. Marriage, children, and years together create serious responsibilities, but they do not eliminate individual choice. Long-term commitment means respecting that freedom while honoring the promises

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If You Only Create What People Already Like, You May Never Create Anything New

Believe in the Idea Before Others Do If you only create what people already like, you may spend your life repeating what someone else has proven successful. Original ideas require the confidence to begin without applause, approval, or guarantees. That does not mean every idea is worth pursuing. It means giving a promising idea enough

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I Was Today Years Old When I Learned These Things About Hollywood

Jamie Foxx Was Born Eric Bishop Jamie Foxx’s real name is Eric Marlon Bishop, and the story behind his stage name is one of those Hollywood facts that sounds made up. Early in his stand-up career, Foxx noticed that female comedians were sometimes being called to perform more quickly at open-mic nights because there were

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Was That a Sign—or Were the Odds Finally Going to Catch Up With You?

You May Experience a “Miracle” This Month There is a fascinating mathematical idea suggesting that extraordinarily unlikely things should happen to us more often than we expect. You think about someone you have not heard from in years and suddenly they call. You stumble across exactly the information you needed. Something happens with timing so

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Sometimes It Is Not an Excuse—You Just Are Not Compatible

Stop Trying to Argue Someone Into Being Your Match People spend too much time trying to argue themselves into compatibility. One person expects daily communication while the other does not need that much contact. Neither person is automatically wrong. But once you understand that difference, you have learned something important. Dating is partly about discovering

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Boosie Paid $600,000 Seeking a Trump Pardon—So What Exactly Was He Paying For?

Six Hundred Thousand Dollars and No Pardon Boosie Badazz says he paid lobbyists Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl $600,000 to advocate for presidential clemency in his federal case. He did not receive the pardon, and now he wants money back. According to 60 Minutes, Boosie believed paying that amount would lead to a pardon. Burkman

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When the Internet Makes Us Afraid to Use the Real Word

The Internet Is Creating a Second Vocabulary Spend enough time on social media and you begin hearing words that sound almost like code. People often replace ordinary words when discussing death, violence, drugs, mental health, politics, and other sensitive subjects. They fear direct language could cause platforms to remove, restrict, demonetize, or limit the reach

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Truckers Are Fighting Diesel Prices While Driverless Trucks Are Already Coming

Before You Park That Truck, Look at What Is Changing Independent truckers have legitimate reasons to be angry about diesel prices. Fuel can determine whether a load makes money at all, especially for owner-operators who may lack the bargaining power and fuel-surcharge protection of larger carriers. In late September 2026, social-media posts called for truckers

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The FBI Really Did Fear Black Political Unity—But the History Is More Specific Than the Viral Quote

Start With What Hoover Actually Said A quote circulating online claims J. Edgar Hoover said Black unity was the greatest threat to America. I understand why people believe it because it seems to fit the FBI’s history, but I cannot find reliable evidence that Hoover actually said those words. We do not need a questionable

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