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A Boy Saw Ghosts
He eleven-year-old boy Jason stared hard at his hands as he described how he and his friends had watched Ghost Hunters, a television series that researched paranormal phenomena. The boys decided to conduct their own research. Armed with a flashlights, they tiptoed into dark basements and murmured invitations to ghosts to appear. One night, Jason…
Read MoreA Different Lens
People tend to see events, situations, and people through the lens of their culture. In the latter half of the twentieth century, psychological theories entered western cultures. One belief that took root is that people are good at their core, but trauma and relational wounds left scars that obscure the goodness in them. Once healed,…
Read MoreAre There Guardian Angels?
One wintry night, I turned onto the ramp of an interstate. A gust whipped up new fallen snow and erased the road. My car slid as if in free fall toward the edge of the ramp. Miraculously, I felt my car lift and put back on the ramp where the car had traction to enter…
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