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The storied Guadalupe River meanders through this Texas Hill Country town and into the unincorporated parts of Kerr County ...

Bart Millard of Christian contemporary group MercyMe shared the deeply personal story behind his group's new song “Oh Death.” ...

My parents recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.

The Missing Prayer is a tell-tale rhythmic recital of the losses, the voids, the gaps and the simplest of the tiny things ...

Malaya Grace Hammond is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Hammond's family said she was swept ...

DHAKA, July 12, 2025 (BSS) – Jatrabari area of Dhaka city was a hotspot of protests, as the student-led movement reached its peak when the Awami League government launched barbaric crackdown on ...

Loving Older People & People Living with Dementia Its a very practical book, as this piece will demonsatrate. In this excerpt Boland explains we can all make a difference. The Bible tells… Continue Re ...

I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ask who wrote it. For much of ...

The Mahabharata is full of colourful characters and they have lots of lessons for various contexts of corporate life not least for a new CEO Here are six things one must not do if one has just become ...

The Ramayana in Sanskrit was authored by Valmiki There was no literature meant for commoners prior to the Ramayana Only Vedic literature existed before it That s why Valmiki is referred to as adi kavi ...

By the time George Johnson was 14, his life was set to be a pastor. “We grew up in a home of faith. Each morning, my father ...