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The lessons learned in a summer job
Of all the important understandings I gained through many temporary and part-time jobs through my school years, one ...
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Stamp collection, anyone?
Today’s youth seem to presume their parents and grandparents lived boring lives without iPhones, iPads, and iPods. I ...
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Looking into human hearts
Amidst all the clamoring for “tougher gun laws,” have we not noticed how miserably generations of gun laws ...
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Alcorn: President Obama finally telling it like it is
President Barack Obama’s second inaugural speech was not intellectual development or social maturing, but his feeling that it ...
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Choose your own change
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) began life as a mathematician and scientist, inventing an early calculating machine, but eventually turned ...
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These immigrants gave to us
Despite all the tradition of Christmas, there are always surprises within the tradition. This year surprised me in ...
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Don’t conclude before the conclusion
An alert reader challenged my “Taking the whole Bible as the Bible” (Oct 16) in which I asserted ...
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Alcorn: A different New Years 150 years ago
New Years is seductive with possibilities seized upon as promises, which presumption is almost the cause of the ...
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Giving gifts at Christmas
Christmas is all about gifting. It includes, of course, the easy and obvious happiness of receiving gifts and ...
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Knowing Christmas means acting Christmas
I know what Christmas is, and I will observe and celebrate Christmas as what I know Christmas to ...
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Taking the Bible literally or how
A reader raised a valid concern about my having asserted that to understand the Bible, one needs to ...
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Enjoy togetherness
Although the book I was reading is truly engaging and I was deeply engaged in it, another thought ...
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Tuba or not to be
The third annual “Merry Tubachristmas” will occur Saturday at the Oak Park Mall. I know, because a year ...
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Alcorn: Giving thanks for Thanksgiving
I have lived through 82 Thanksgivings, and I remember all but the first several. Those of childhood and ...
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Thanking those who served
Yesterday, many nice people were especially nice to me because it was Veterans Day. I have received multiple ...