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A Prayer for Those Who Are Grieving for the Passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
On July 17, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from eastern Ukraine. All 298 passengers and crew were killed, including 193 from the Netherlands and 28 from …
A Prayer for Victims and Families of the Turkish Mine Disaster
An explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, in western Turkey, on May 13, 2014, has become the country's worst industrial disaster. The death toll now stands at 301 after the last two bodies of mi…
A Prayer for Desperate Children Fleeing Gang Violence
God Who Breaks Chains, guide, direct, and sustain the poor, frightened, and desperate children of Central America who have seen their peers murdered in their communities because they have not wanted…
Prayer for the Kidnapped Nigerian Girls and All Their Sisters
The evening of April 15, 2014, armed men stormed into a boarding school in northern Nigeria and herded hundreds of girls into their vehicles; 50 girls escaped but 276 are still missing. They were ta…
A Prayer about the Death Penalty
God Who Breaks Chains, 32 American states have the death penalty for certain crimes. Public opinion remains divided on this practice, even after something went wrong during the lethal injection exec…
The Future of Robot Caregivers
Large numbers of people are entering the stage of life where they need the services of caregivers to meet their physical and emotional needs, and there are just not enough of these skilled professio…
Strength and Influence in Christianity
By Sebastian Hersey
A large part of a person’s worldview is made up of their religion (or lack thereof), or the religion of their family or community. I am a Christian, and I have grown up in a…
Praying for Endangered Species
Photo Credit: Barbary Ape by Alexas_Fotos, courtesy of Pixabay
In The Week, August 30, 2019, we learn that according to the United Nations up to one million species face extinction. The Trump Adm…
Nurses in the Making
“I put the flowers that Linda's family sent at the nurse's station. Before Linda died, I had come to talk with her, her husband, and their two adult sons. I did that every Saturday for three mo…
Heroes Who Practice "Mercy Medicine"
Here in the U.S., we hear a lot of complaints about medical care, especially for poor people. Even with the option of "Obamacare," many people are not well insured and are relying on emergency rooms…