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If It Looks Like a Duck . . .

If It Looks Like a Duck . . .

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On April 23rd, 2013, the television network Logo TV broadcast the documentary What? I Think I’m an Animal, featuring interviews with teenagers who believe their physical human bodies do not reflect their spiritual animal identifies. These people call themselves Therians or Otherkins, people who identify, in some intrinsic way, as an animal that exists or has existed on earth. Some believe that their soul is that of an animal while others believe the cause of their animal identity is psychological….

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Two Families – Two Results

Two Families – Two Results

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In one of my former ministries, there were two families that barely preceded me there. One was brought to faith and discipled by my predecessor and the other had recently moved to the area and were looking for a good church. They both had kids of a similar age and they were both broken families. The one had been married previously, then divorced, then reconciled after the wife had three kids from a mediating relationship (they had one child together),…

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The 1904 Olympic Marathon

The 1904 Olympic Marathon

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The 1904 Olympic marathon may have been the strangest ever. Of the 32 runners, only five were experienced marathoners; one showed up at the starting line barefoot, and a Cuban runner was attired in a white, long-sleeved shirt, long, dark pants, a beret and a pair of street shoes. One fellow Olympian took pity, found a pair of scissors and cut his trousers at the knee. On August 30 they fired the starting pistol, and the men were off. Heat…

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