1-844-I-DOUBT-IT: A new help line for troubled atheists
He’s been a Christian for 20 years but can’t believe in the Bible anymore. He hasn’t told his friends or family and still sits, uneasy, in church each Sunday. “I…
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Volunteering Surprisingly Makes You Feel Like You Have More Free Time
I spend most Sunday afternoons hanging out with elementary and middle school kids, simplifying fractions, playing Connect Four and getting reacquainted with the basic rules of spelling. I recently learned…
Volunteering Surprisingly Makes You Feel Like You Have More Free Time
I spend most Sunday afternoons hanging out with elementary and middle school kids, simplifying fractions, playing Connect Four and getting reacquainted with the basic rules of spelling. I recently learned…
Internet Raises Funds For Firefighter Who Responded To Emergency Call At His Own Home
A group of firefighters is helping one of their own start over after a tragedy. Mike Heim, a volunteer fireman in Soloman, Maryland, answered a call about a house fire…
Man Who Grew Up In Struggling Immigrant Household Leaves Wall Street Job To Help Homeless
The son of two Korean immigrant parents who once struggled to make ends meet, Robert Lee understood as a young child what it’s like to feel hungry. He eventually went…
‘I’m A Catholic Feminist And My Church Needs Me Now More Than Ever’
I recall standing in my grandmother’s kitchen with her yellow Bakelite phone to my ear, waiting on hold for a talkback radio program. I was eight years old, and my…
Make The MLK Holiday A Day On, Not A Day Off
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Liza Kaufman Hogan For those wanting to do more on the upcoming three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend (Jan. 17-19) than sleep in, clean…