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Tragedy doesn’t define who we are in holiday season
Ten years ago this month, I wrote a column about grief at Christmas. That terrible irony has haunted me since the 2012 season began. I didn’t want to re-read it. Last Friday morning, I opened th...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Dreidels are displayed at the Barry and Penny Gold home Dec. 6 in Lake Mary, Florida.
Menorah, dreidel collections display faith, family
ORLANDO, Fla. — On the shelves in the gift shop of Maitland, Fla.,’s Ohev Shalom synagogue are menorahs made of metal, hand-painted ceramic, wire and glass, including some that look like circus ten...
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Peace on earth — and this year, maybe even at home during holidays
Nothing says the holidays like Uncle Lou sitting in a corner, grousing about the economy or his cable bill or the lack of gravy at his end of the table during dinner. Family get-togethers this t...
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Special services New Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church, 1249 N. 12th St., introduces co-pastor elder LaRita Horton of Christ The Healer Church of Clarksville, Tenn., as the guest speaker at...
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A unique Christmas gift? A year of clean drinking water
Most people think of snow and Christmas going together, but some creative and generous folks think of water and Christmas. Specifically, clean water. Advent Conspiracy is a campaign I’ve mention...
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Barbara Resan (right) holds her dog, Sky, during a blessing of pets by the Rev. Michael Mohn outside the Frederick County Esther Boyd Animal Shelter on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Winchester, Va.
Do animals have souls?
PARAGOULD, Ark. — Animals have irrefutably made a notable mark on human society throughout history. Whether used as a means of transportation, welcomed as loyal, loving and cuddly members of hum...
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Associated Press Ultra Orthodox Jews and children watch Hanukkah's fourth candle lights during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah on Dec. 11 in Jerusalem. The Jewish festival of light is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to put statues of Greek gods in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
The great Hanukkah gift debate
Hanukkah may not hold a candle to Christmas in terms of pop culture and pageantry. But as Adam Sandler pointed out in his hit “Hanukkah Song,” the holiday offers children one advantage: “Instead of...
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Jesus is God’s unique fingerprint
The fingerprint is such a wonderful mystery. Although man has used it for thousands of years as a unique identifier, how it actually forms is something that researchers haven’t quite put their fing...
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Special services Bells Chapel CME Church, 207 North Highland Drive, Fulton. Candlelight service at 3 p.m. Sunday. Rev. Benjamin Lewis of Phillips Chapel CME Church of Elkton is special speaker. ...
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Council steps down from pulpit after 59 years
More than half a century has passed since the Rev. Harold Council first led his fledgling congregation of 53 members in a brush arbor worship service in southside Paducah. And while that garden ...
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