She loved the things that fascinate children, when they first realise just how big and how impossible the world they’ve been born into really is; things too magnificent to be properly digested by the shrunken tastefulness of adulthood. She chased after her passions. Sometimes I’d get a pho...
He was the last of his family, the waiter added-they had once been great and rich people-but he had no descendants;in fact the waiter mentioned with complacency, as if it were a story on which the locality prided itself, that the Conte had been unfortunate in love, and had never marr...
Nobody Wants This is one of those classic “will they, won’t they” stories, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. He’s a rabbi who has just gone through a bad break-up. She presents a podcast about relationships. This allows the show to touch on issues of inter-faith relationship,...
like a tempest, thousands of years. On her neck I welcomed the new life with ecstatic tears. It was the first, the only dream — and just since then I have held fast an eternal, unchangeable faith in the heaven of the Night, and its ...
And then there are eggs which do not yet exhibit so much as a tremble, yet which must be kept warm out of the freelancer's faith, belief, pigheadedness, dogged persistence...all without knowing whether or not they will ever hatch (the manuscript you are working on; the long-shot ...
The Catholic Church, for instance, has very strict ways of understanding who is and is not a member of the faith. Protestant churches have varying methods of counting members, some of which tend to inflate (counting anyone still on the rolls as a member of the church, regardless of ...
John MacArthur’s and Greg Laurie’s ministries on WMIT in Black Mountain, NC really helped us discover the truth of God’s word during that turbulent time. Because WCG considered itself the exclusive church with God’s truth, I discovered that the foundation of my faith was in a set of...
Credible: This principle means that users believe in the product and have faith it delivers on what it’s promising. If it does, the user experience will be enjoyable, even if the product isn’t perfect. Desirable: A desirable product is an in-demand product, and something users will want...
It was the only thing standing between his family and starvation, and he had no faith it would be returned to him as the officer promised: he had watched as soldiers had marked other confiscated valuable weapons for themselves. As the men struggled, the gun fired into the sky. Before the...
three U.S. soldiers tried to wrench a valuable Winchester away from a young Lakota man. He refused to give up his hunting weapon. It was the only thing standing between his family and starvation, and he had no faith it would be returned to him as the officer promised: he had watched ...