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We have sometimes heard of a brother who has become great and rich in the world. He has some poor brother or some distant relative, and when he sees him in the street he is obliged to speak to him and own him. I dare say he wished him a long way off, especially if some rich acquaintance happened to be…

Paul O’Sullivan said one night he was randomly searching for people with the same name on a social media site. He sent friend requests to the people he found and most accepted. As they began seeing information from the other people, they discovered several of them were musicians, so they decided to form…

A friendship that brought together a family from Newfoundland and the Canary Island began with a message in a bottle and a tragic accident. Patrick Dennis originally found the bottle on the shore of Tenerife Island off the coast of Africa in 2002. He made an attempt to contact the 5-year-old girl from…

Have you noticed how difficult it is to have a conversation with a friend these days without interruption? If one of you isn’t getting a text or call, the other is constantly glancing at their phone. A recent study by Asurion found that “Americans check their phone on average once every 12 minutes –…

Samsung has released a new dating app that helps people find matches by looking at the insides of the person’s refrigerator. The Refrigerdating app designed for use with the company’s Family Hub Refrigerator allows singles to learn about potential mates based on what they keep inside the appliance. The…

Software engineer, Jackie Luo writing at Vox.com, shares the easiest way to make or lose friends. “What a lot of people don’t appear to understand is that the single easiest way to make friends is to show up when it matters — and the single easiest way to lose friends is to, well, not.” That may be an…

A Massachusetts woman has a new outlook on life after receiving a kidney donation from a complete stranger. Nicole Baltzer had never imagined being a living donor before she read a story about a single mother with Lupus who needed a new kidney to survive. Baltzer said when she read about the other woman;…

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studying 1,787 adults ages 19 to 32 discovered a connection between time spent on social media and loneliness. Users who spend more than two hours daily on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram are more than twice as likely…

Guards say they accustomed to people leaving things like sunglasses or small items at airport security checkpoints, but were surprised to discover a diamond-encrusted Cartier watch left behind by a Japanese businessperson. The owner had already boarded his flight, but he sent a friend to pick it and…

Mikel McLaughlin has an impressive 560 friends on Facebook. While looking over that list, McLaughlin realized that he did not actually know most of those people so he set out to change that. The Minnesota native messaged a few friends and asked them if they wanted to meet for some quality time. Then,…

A restaurant in Japan has a unique solution for diners who come in alone. To help their customers avoid the perils of eating alone, the Moomin House Café in Japan seats single diners with a stuffed animal companion called a Moomin, a family of white-hippo like characters created by a Finnish artist.…

The growth of social media has created a new perspective on friendship. Over a period of several years, it is easy to collect a lot of cyber friendships that are no more than people that appear on the computer screen. News feeds can be full of chatter and information, but not much of it is from real…

The growth of social media has created a new perspective on friendship. Over a period of several years, it is easy to collect a lot of cyber friendships that are no more than people that appear on the computer screen. News feeds can be full of chatter and information, but not much of it is from real…

According to the Journal of Medical Internet Research, friends may be even more important than we thought. The odds of living longer are increased by 50% for people with strong social connections. --Time, August 9, 2010 p. 13. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell Proverbs 17:17 (HCSB) A friend…

While money has a big impact on our lives, it is not nearly the impact we might think, especially when it comes to making us happy. According to one study, joining a group that meets just once a month produces the same happiness gain as doubling your income. According to another study, being married…

Jennifer Morrison freely admits that friendship helps supplement her income. Morrison takes reservations at a popular restaurant and has been paid to show a visiting computer programmer around town, attend a movie with a border grandmother, and scrapbook with a stay a-home mom. Morrison says she likes…

Adversity comes to those who are making a difference for Christ. Missionary statesman Oswald Chambers once wrote, “Suffering is the heritage of the bad, of the penitent, and of the Son of God. Each one ends at the Cross. The bad thief is crucified, the penitent thief is crucified, and the Son of God…

COMMUNITY Eric Schmidt, CEO and chairman of Google, in a commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania said, "Turn off your computer. You're actually going to have to turn off your phone and discover all that is human around us," He continued, "Nothing beats holding the hand of your grandchild…

RELATIONSHIPS Twenty-four year old Sky was a creative, artistic, intelligent thinker who majored in photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He had an introverted personality, and was wearing a polyester retro-artist suit, sporting extended sideburns when he was introduced at Graceland…

FRIENDS Christina Applegate, is the star of ABC’s Samantha Who? Christina revealed in August 2008 that she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer. On a TV special Stand Up to Cancer she reminded the audience that “We all need someone to accompany us on the journey.” --USA Today, December 22, 2008,…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…