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It is not uncommon for college football players to give up their last year of eligibility to seek a position in the National Football League. When Auburn running back Peyton Barber announced that he was leaving the school for the NFL, the reason surprised everyone. Barber said that his mother was living…

Unmarried women living in Beijing are under great pressure to find husbands. That pressure has created a burgeoning industry in rental boyfriends, especially around holiday seasons when they go home to the countryside to visit their families. Boyfriends cost about a month’s salary for a visit home posing…

Kitam Hamm lives in a gang-infested community in Southern California. In the last four years, he has seen nine friends die because of gang violence. Playing football, even being a football star is not enough to keep young men from being involved in gang violence. Hamm has excelled both on the football…

A young 18-year-old from Connecticut would do well to remember the fifth commandment. When his mother insisted he clean his room, he cursed her. When things got out of hand, the police showed up and arrested him. His response was to tell the police, “I have rights.” --The Week, October 14, 2011 p. 6…

James Livingston keeps his promises. Some of them just take a long time. In 1942 his parents allowed him to enlist in the army to fight in WW II. He had to promise to get his high school diploma when he returned. “Through the years,” James says, “I have thought to myself; ‘you promised your momma you…

PARENTING Country music star Brad Paisley has sold more than 7 million albums and recorded 14 number one singles. Despite his success, Paisley says he has still owes his father money. Paisley says when he was first getting started at the age of 12, he would go out and sing five songs, tell jokes, and…

The day comes when all parents must recognize that their children have grown up and allow them to make their way in the world. Some parents have often trouble letting go. For the clingy type parents whose children are attending a Chinese university in Wuhan, the college is helping. They are providing…

Actor Michael Douglas grew up with an absent father. His father, actor Kirk Douglas, was hardly around during Michael’s childhood because he was off making movies. Now Michael’s own child, Cameron is facing up to 10 years in prison for drug abuse. He grew up with the same kind of absent father. Michael…

Family Worship Last summer we sat on a balcony of a lodge overlooking Lake Barkley near my parent's home in Kentucky. It was Sunday morning and we'd decided to have our own family worship service. We rocked back and forth in the medal chairs as my Uncle Bobby, the pastor of Praise Assembly in Pueblo…

The novel Hold Tight The Thread, by Jane Kirkpatrick is an historical fictionalization centering on the lives of real people living in the Pacific Northwest during the 1840s. The book explores the forces acting on individuals due to the interplay of French, Native American, English, and American cultures…

AWAKENING In July 1984 an automobile accident nearly claimed the life of Terry Wallis. He was so seriously injured that the 39 year-old man had been in a coma until June 2003. Wallis’s mother was standing by his bed when he awoke. She was startled when he spoke to her. Angilee Wallis calls her son’s…

EMPTY NEST David Beardsley, describes the empty nest years this way, "After two decades of screen doors banging, parent-teacher conferences, wet towels on the bathroom floor, and evenings at the ballfield, your time is your own again. And the house is so quiet." —The Brookline Tab, 9-16-97 Illustration…

Honoring Your Mother “Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do. [2] ‘Honor your father and mother.’ This is the first of the Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. [3] And this is the promise: If you honor your father and mother, ‘you will live…

Blessings From God Moms, when you're knee deep in dirty diapers, spilled oatmeal and bedtime stories, I'm sure it is easy to be so overwhelmed by motherhood that there is no time left to think about what you want for your children or from your children when they are grown. But from the time the nurse…

Righteousness John 8:7 NIV "When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, 'If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.'" Josh grew up in the church and was active in his youth group growing up. Like many children who were raised in a Christian…

TERROR Hassan Hotari is proud of his son, Saeed. What did Saeed do that made his father proud? Did he graduate from college? Find the cure for a disease? Or get a promotion at work? No. On June 2, Saeed Hotari got out of a car at the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv—a nightclub that attracts Israeli teenagers.…