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Australian Backpacker Rescues Family from North Korea (VIDEO)

May 14, 2013 By Abigail Ortlieb Leave a Comment

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In 2009, Dick Stolp helped Hyeonseo Lee and her family escape from North Korea; watch Lee’s TED Talk and see their emotional reunion.

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All I Ever Wanted Was a Cheeseburger

May 10, 2013 By Dennis Danziger 13 Comments

cheeseburgers, fast food, American culture, teenage rebellion, religious rebellion, kashrut

Growing up Orthodox Jewish in Houston, Texas in the 1950s and ’60s, the mixing of dairy and meat was forbidden.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Food, Lifestyle, The Good Life, Trending Tagged With: 1950s, 1960s, allure of the forbidden, American culture, American food, cheeseburgers, commandments, Deuteronomy, eating kosher, ethics, Faith, Fast Food, forbidden fruit, growing up Orthodox, Houston, Jewish Americans, justice, kashrut, Orthodox Jewish, pets, religion, religious rebellion, repairing the world, teenage rebellion, Texas, tikkun olam

Acts of Kindness Captured on Russian Dash Cams (Video)

May 5, 2013 By Deanna Ogle Leave a Comment

These good people will give you hope.

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: acts of kindness, consideration, courtesy, dash cams, dashboard cameras, Faith, good acts, goodness, hope, humanity, people, random acts of kindness, Russia, russian, Sex and Relationships

THOSE People (Video)

May 4, 2013 By Christian Piatt Leave a Comment

If we’re being honest, we all have “those people” in our lives.

Filed Under: In Good Faith Tagged With: A Heretic's Guide to the Bible, bible, Christian Piatt, conversation, Faith, God, groups, guide, heretic, mens news, people, Sex and Relationships, those people

Hell and the Love of God (Pt. 2 of 2) – Exploring Sheol, Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna

April 20, 2013 By Christian Piatt 1 Comment

What the misunderstandings of our favorite characters and locations of hell reveal about the character of God

Filed Under: In Good Faith Tagged With: after life, bible, Faith, Gehenna, God, hades, hell, jesus, Lucifer, men, Old Testament, religion, Satan, Sex and Relationships, sheol, women

Hell and the Love of God (Pt. 1 of 2)

April 15, 2013 By Christian Piatt 2 Comments

If God can’t expiate sin without our participation in asking for that forgiveness, then God is weak. If, instead, God chooses not to forgive sin unless we ask for it, opting instead to let us suffer for all eternity because of our mistakes, then God is not loving.

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“You can bring your kids to church with you, but if they stop wanting to go, forcing them is about the worst thing you can do.”

April 7, 2013 By the Editors 2 Comments

These are comments by Morgan, Lars Fischer, and David Kaiser on the post “What If the Kids Don’t Want Our Church?”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: children, church, church activities, Faith, God, kids, leaving church, parenting, parents, protesting, Teens

My Kids Will Believe in the Almighty Power of Thought

April 5, 2013 By Dork Daddy 14 Comments

“I cannot allow my children to close their minds to all the infinite possibilities of our world and our universe, only one of which is offered by any organized religion.”

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Owning Whiteness

April 2, 2013 By Justin Cascio 20 Comments

racial colorblindness, whiteness, white people, white people on race, racism, eradicating racism

Rather than defend against the charge, Justin Cascio attempts to define and possess his Whiteness.

Filed Under: Assumed Identities, On Race, The Good Life Tagged With: American Dream, American identity, animal farm, consciousness raising, converts, Dreams of My Father, Enlightenment, eradicating racism, expatriates, Faith, feminism, feminist men, gay white men, George Orwell, George W. Bush, identity, institutionalized racism, Manifest Destiny, Outsiders, passing, patriarchy, post-Columbian America, power, racial colorblindness, Racism, religion, social justice, the man, US history, white is a color, white men racism, white people, white people on race, White Privilege, white shame, whiteness

Are You Raising a Narcissist?

March 22, 2013 By Jason Bruce 8 Comments

narcissism, selfish children, overconfident underachievers, teaching humility, modeling empathy, parenthood, faith

The cultural and technological trends that are making us even more self-absorbed.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Ethics & Values, The Good Life Tagged With: American Freshman Survey, American values, children media exposure, church, confidence, Dr. Keith Ablow, empathy, face to face interactions, facebook, Faith, fathers and daughters, Fox News, Greed, humility, modeling empathy, narcissism, narcissists, overconfidence, overconfident underachievers, Parenthood, parenting, praising beauty, psychology, self-esteem, selfish children, success, teaching humility, Video Games, volunteering

Funeral

March 1, 2013 By Joey DeFrancesco Leave a Comment

“Quinn has booked a flight to Connemara, County Galway. But first, this funeral. This director. What is her name?” By Joey DeFrancesco

Filed Under: Featured Content, Fiction Tagged With: BMW, Divorce, episcopalian, Faith, funeral, funeral director, hearse, joe defrancesco, prayer, religion, sex, Weekend Fiction

Parables of Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Rev. Matthew Westfox

February 26, 2013 By Justin Cascio 3 Comments

What do the Bible and Jesus Christ have to say about a woman’s right to choose?

Filed Under: Abortion, Ethics & Values, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: abortion, access to health care, bible, Christian values, christianity, Compassion, contraception, economic justice, epistemology, Faith, Health Care, how to support someone having an abortion, justice, male privilege, medical ethics, Mercy, Parenthood, privilege, pro-choice, pro-life, proof texting, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, reproductive choice, reproductive decision making, reproductive education, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, Rev Matthew Westfox, scientific method, Scriptural support for reproductive choice, sex education, social justice, theology, United Church of Christ, whether to father, White Privilege, woman's choice, women's rights

Faking It

February 13, 2013 By Carl Pettit 4 Comments

Who do you put your faith in, who might be faking their belief?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men and Spirituality, Root Down, Spirituality & Ethics, The Good Life Tagged With: Agnosticism, belief, belief in God, Buddhist monks, clergy, counselors, existence of God, Faith, Godwin's Law, Himalayas, India, Ladakh, leaders, managers, meditation, monasteries, politicians, rhetoric, spiritual leaders, spiritual life, Thikse monastery

On Death, Loneliness, and Goldfish

February 11, 2013 By Robert Duffer Leave a Comment

Talking to my kids about death was the first step in listening to the loneliness it evoked

Filed Under: Families Tagged With: Faith, God, goldfish, great grandmother, lego, NEMO, Nor' easter, swim bladder, talking to your kids about death

Iris: The Story of a Polio Mother

February 10, 2013 By Kurt Sipolski Leave a Comment

The story of a boy from Hardscrabble, Illinois, and his courageous mother.

Filed Under: Fear & Courage, Featured Content, Mother's Day, The Good Life Tagged With: 1940s, American history, australia, Bravery, broken hip, brothers, california, cancer, childhood, Cindy Crawford, courage, crutches, death, determination, diagnosis, disability, dying, Faith, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, grief, Hardscrabble Illinois, heroes, heroism, journalists, melanoma, motherhood, mothers and sons, orthopedics, Palm Desert, Paris, physical therapy, Polio, rehabilitation, Rupert Murdoch, single motherhood, Streator Illinois, surgery, Sydney, US history, wheelchairs, World War II

Frankly, I Do Give a Damn

January 8, 2013 By Greg White 6 Comments

An encounter in the grocery parking lot changes Greg White’s resolutions for this and every year.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, Men Over 50, New Years 2012, The Good Life Tagged With: acts of kindness, charity, Cocoon, connecting with others, Faith, grocery shopping, helping others, homeless people, intergenerational relationships, kindness, Navy veteran, New Year's Resolutions, Normandy, old men, retirement community life, screenplay writing, Sex and Relationships, stories, strangers, veterans, virtues, World War II veteran, writing for television

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Illinois Passes Bill for Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Public Schools

“In fantasy land, we teach our kids abstinence—and they listen.”

David R. Dow: Lessons From Death Row Inmates (TEDTalk VIDEO)

David R. Dow is an attorney in Texas who has defended over 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years.

HuffPost Live: Decapitating Extremism (VIDEO)

Mike Sacks discusses the attack in Woolwich, London, and extremism with a panel of experts on Islam and the Quran.

Our Mission: The Vasectomy Files 8

The Vasectomy Project is encouraging men to join forces and take responsibly for family planning. This is an opportunity to bring people together to talk about our collective responsibility while offering men a concrete way to contribute towards a solution by having a vasectomy.