Another highly publicized court case, another verdict, or lack of one, the news received with delight and relief by some, greeted wit...

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     In college, I signed up for a class called “Social Psychology.”   The professor must have been amazing, for I went to only one lect...

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     When I read the statement from eighty of my brothers and sisters in United Methodist Ministry declaring their belief that it is best if...