Will we ever be color blind? Will we ever be able to construct a society in which we are not judged by the color of our skin? Some people are able to see beyond the surface and glimpse the essence of another. Margaret Chanin was one of those people—her life is an inspirational true story […]
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What is faith? Is it simply belief in a Higher Power? Or is it something more? For Margaret Chanin, who lost both arms in a boating accident at the age of 24, faith was about searching. As she lay in a hospital bed recovering from the accident, “I prayed to die,” she admitted. “Bereaved, fighting
Words have power. The power to harm as well as to heal divide and defeat, unify and uplift. That is why they must be chosen carefully, not sprayed callously like bullets from an automatic weapon. Today we live in a world where words are twisted and used deliberately to mislead, demean, and destroy. George Orwell,
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Today, in our time of hurricanes, fires, and floods, of wars in far-off places, of despair and recrimination and division, it is worth recalling the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who recognized the power and the peril of fear. In his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, three years into the Great Depression, he