Robert Curry
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Robert Curry has been a children's storyteller for over thirty years for students and teachers in elementary schools and campers and staff in summer camps. Johnny is the result of those stories. When his daughters were very young, he would tell them a story before bedtime, usually stories familiar to all that have been told over the decades and even the centuries. One night they asked him to make up a new story and Johnny and his magic ring were born....
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Preaching is a demand of the Bible that is fitted with a specific purpose and a strong theological base. It is the proclamation of the word of God and is done in churches throughout the world. Preaching plays a role in the spiritual formation of its hearers, helping to form a community of faith whose members are sharing in and supporting one another in a spiritual journey. The topics of preaching can be found in both the Old and New Testaments, within...
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Common sense is the foundation of thinking and of human action. It is the indispensable basis for making our way in the world as individuals and in community with others, and the starting point for finding truth and building scientific knowledge. The philosophy of common-sense realism deeply informed the American Founders' vision for a self-governing people, in a society where leaders and average citizens share essentially the same understanding of...
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'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.' This sentence is perfectly familiar. We know it as a core principle of our founding. But few, if any of us consider why Jefferson wrote it in exactly this way. Why 'unalienable rights' and not simply rights? Why 'self-evident' truths and not...
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You won't find certainty in anything that you read, hear, see or feel. There are no authoritative sources and the opinions of other people mean nothing when it comes to certainty. Certainty is not what you choose to believe. Certainty is what you have to believe when you realize that nothing else is possible.Despite this strict condition, certainty can be found through introspection and analysis. It's a personal search, but it's search for treasure.This...
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No one was conscious when the hydrogen reservoir blew apart and sent the Constellation careening off course, but René was quickly revived to deal with the situation. Now, with hundreds of years to go before his spaceship will reach its destination and unable to return to cryogenic hibernation, René knows he will never again speak to another human being. He has become the loneliest repairman of all.But the damage is more severe than expected and...