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Man must have a master. He cannot serve two masters, but he must serve one. Of all sorts of men this has been true, and it has perhaps been most clearly seen in those who were evidently made to lead their fellow men. It is specially seen in such a man, for instance, as Alexander, a true king of men,…

In 1996, 58% of students used loans to finance their education. At graduation they owed less than $20,000. In 2015, 71% of graduating students took out loans and owe an average of $35,051 each. We are launching our children into the world already financially indebted. They are mortgaging their future,…

Eric Talmadge is a veteran journalist working for the Associated Press’s Pyongyang bureau in North Korea. Since 2013 he has spent about ten days a month inside the country, always accompanied by an agent of the state. “I just assume that everything I say, to anyone, is on the record,” says Talmadge.…

In 2015, Amanda Knox was granted a not guilty verdict by the Italian Supreme Court. A tearful Knox said she is glad to have her life back after an eight-year legal drama that gripped many around the world. She was prosecuted after the body of her friend Meredith Kercher, 21, was found in 2007 in the…

Select all the text in this box and paste your illustration here... Source: Magazine Name, January 1, 2006 No longer slaves of our former master.

The following "urban legend" has been around since 1999: A Vermont native, Ronald Demuth, found himself in a difficult position. While touring the Eagle's Rock African Safari (Zoo) with a group from Russia, Mr. Demuth went overboard to show them one of America's many marvels. He demonstrated the effectiveness…

The way the early Church understood slavery was different to our conceptions of African cotton fields or butlers of the aristocracy. Slaves were literally everywhere in the Greco-Roman context - 1 in 3 people in the empire were slaves. Status as a free or freedman was pretty special then. And yet, in…

Radio personality Paul Harvey tells the story of how an Eskimo kills a wolf. The account is grisly, yet it offers fresh insight into the consuming, self-destructive nature of sin. First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. Then he adds another layer of blood, and…

One of the great heroes in African-American history is a woman named Harriet Tubman, a slave in Maryland who escaped to Philadelphia over the famous “Underground Railroad” and then became one of its most successful conductors in the years leading up to the Civil War. Mrs. Tubman became known as “Moses”…

Alexander the Great, seeing Diogenes looking attentively at a parcel of human bones, asked the philosopher what he was looking for. Diogenes' reply: "That which I cannot find--the difference between your father's bones and those of his slaves." Plutarch.

Sins power is like the story of the boy who was shooting rocks with a slingshot. He could never hit his target. He was in his Grandma’s backyard one day, & spied her pet duck. On impulse he took aim and let fly. Amazingly the stone hit, and the duck was dead. The boy panicked and hid the bird under some…