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For more information on this complicated issue, refer to the following resources:Crisis AssistanceFor telephone support and local resource information, victims can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE or find the nearest shelter/support program via an online map at http://www.theraveproject.com/help.php.Christian MinistriesMending the Soul Ministries—http://

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*This article was first published in the March 16, 2008, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.The daughter of a pastor, Julie Owens grew up in a Christian home. She dreamed of modeling her parents’ healthy marriage with her own husband one day.Shortly after her wedding, however, her husband David became jealous and suspicious, angrily accusing Julie of unfaithfulness and interrogating her for

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The Baby Schedule Ruler. The Sleepeasy Solution. The Everything Baby’s First Year Book. The New Basics: A-to-Z Baby & Child Care for the Modern Parent. These and hundreds of other books promise parents keys for raising well-adjusted children. Many of them promote schedules as a critical tool — but taken to the extreme, experts say, rigid schedules can actually do more harm than good. Read the

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Chaplaincy has long been a formalized ministry in hospitals, the military and in prisons. Now, Assemblies of God chaplains are stationed in another growing field: retirement communities. Read the full story here: http://pe.ag.org/Articles2009/4970_Newslead.cfm

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Many vets are ambushed by post-traumatic stress disorder. But some churches are coming to their defense.Nate Self's military record was impeccable. A West Point graduate, he led an elite Army Ranger outfit and established himself as a war hero in March 2002 for his leadership during a 15-hour ambush firefight in Afghanistan. The battle resulted in a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, and a position as

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See http://www.internetcafedevotions.com/2009/07/comparing-trials.html to read an excerpt from my book Faith Deployed at Internet Cafe Devotions.

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Share stories to help your kids make the most of this summer’s getaways.*This story first appeared online at General Mills' Box Tops for Education Family Matters Web site.Whether you’re traveling across the continent or just across town, the places you go this summer will broaden your child’s world. Help her enjoy your travels—and learn more along the way—by starting each adventure in the pages

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Cell phones have been a daily part of many American teenagers’ lives for years. By now, 80 percent of teens aged 13-17 have them, according to Nielsen Mobile. What is new and newsworthy is what some teens are doing with those phones these days.In January, in Greensburg, Pa., two 14-year-old girls and a 15-year-old girl were charged with manufacturing and disseminating child pornography for

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Several of my articles (13, to be exact) were published on the Juicy Juice Web site recently. Click each title to view the article:5 Ways to Enhance Your Child's Thinking Through PlayBrush Up on Dental Care to Strengthen ImmunityHow Music Inspires Your Baby's BrainFinding the Right Preschool to Develop Your Child's MindEarly Socialization Aids Brain DevelopmentYour Child's Amazing Developing

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*This article appeard in General Mills Box Tops 4 Education Family Matters Web site in May 2009.Raising a child with asthma doesn’t have to be scary. Consider the following as you work with your child’s doctor to develop a plan that will help you and your child breathe easier:Stay on active dutyLook to the three P’s to help keep your child safe wherever she goes:1. Plan. Compose a written Asthma

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*This article appeared on General Mills Box Tops 4 Education Family Matters Web site in May 2009.Boost your child's word power - and confidence-with these fun family activiites.Create a signal for, “What does that mean?” Ask your child to use a special signal every time she hears a family member say an unfamiliar word. Whenever she uses the signal, such as a finger placed alongside her nose, the

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The Iowa Supreme Court ruled April 3 that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, making Iowa the first Midwest state to legalize same-sex marriages. Iowa does not have a residency requirement for couples applying for a license. Changing the Iowa Constitution requires a resolution to be adopted in the exact same form by the House and the Senate of two consecutive General

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A white cradle sat empty at the foot of Maria and Jeff Lancaster’s bed. Maria, 46 years old at the time, had recently suffered her third miscarriage and since in vitro fertilization and adoption were not viable options for the couple, they were told to give up the dream of parenthood. Maria refused. Six years earlier, she had gone to Cedar Park Assembly of God in Bothell, Wash., where Pastor Joe

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Laura Scott, of Roanoke, Va., knew from an early age that she did not want to be a mother. On her first date with her now-husband, she made it clear that she didn’t want children. He agreed.“I’m 46 this year,” says Scott, “and have yet to feel a pang of longing for a child.” Scott represents a growing segment of the American population who are voluntarily “childfree.” According to the 2004 U.S.

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My new book Faith Deployed: Daily Encouragement for Military Wives is now available where Christian books are sold (including Amazon.com). See www.faithdeployed.com for more information about the book. To view yesterday's newspaper article about Faith Deployed, click here.

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*This article first appeared on the General Mills Box Tops 4 Education Web site in December 2008.Welcome little helpers to cook up big rewardsJust because cooking is necessary doesn’t mean it has to be a chore. Using these simple guidelines, add your kids to the mix and whip up memories that will linger long after the last bite is gone.Happy bakingHappy helpers in the kitchen are the first

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*This story ran in the September/October 2008 issue of Today's Christian.One former soldier's struggles with PTSD--and how God has sustained him.It has been more than six years since West Point graduate Nate Self led his team of Army Rangers on the rescue mission on a snowy mountain peak in Afghanistan. But the grisly memories are never very far away.On March 4, 2002, they were sent to recover a

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*This story ran in the September/October 2008 issue of Today's Christian.For soldiers returning from combat, the trauma often continues. How can the church help?When Frank Vozenilek returned from the Viet Nam war in 1971, he attended a local church where, from the pulpit, the pastor called him a murderer (Vozenilek was a medic and never killed anyone). Vozenilek vowed he’d never set foot in a

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*This article first appeared on the General Mills Box Tops 4 Education Web site in October 2008.With a special place of their own, young readers will cuddle up with books. Here are a few tips to help them settle in.Children respond well to books when literature is made a priority in their lives. Dr. Vicki Folds, vice president of education and professional development for Children of America in

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*This article originally appeared on the General Mills Box Tops 4 Education Web site in September 2008.Start your kindergartner off on the right foot with good practices and keep her on the path to continued success in school. Clinical psychologist Michele Borba, Ed.D., of Palm Springs, California, is a former kindergarten teacher and a parenting expert for The Today Show. She is also the author

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The Bible Society of the West Indies and Wycliffe Bible Translators have sparked a national controversy by beginning to translate the Bible into patois, Jamaica's Creole language. Read the full story online here at Christianity Today.

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Taylor University President Eugene Habecker spent months diligently working on his inauguration address. When the day came, however, he scrapped it. Less than 48 hours earlier, on April 26, 2006, four Taylor students and a dining services employee had been killed returning to Taylor’s Upland, Ind., campus after setting up a banquet for the new president at the university’s other campus in Ft.

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Green thumb or not, you can grow a love for nature in the heart of your child with a few seeds and some dirt.*This article originally appeared on the General Mills Box Tops for Education Web site in June 2008.Did you know that getting dirty can actually be healthy for your kids? When it’s gardening, it’s good clean fun –and good for them, too!GIFTS OF GARDENINGGardens provide:A safe place for

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Help your children learn to ride a bike and watchtheir confidence take off.Read the full article here, at General Mills' Box Tops for Education Web site, or below:Learning to ride a bike is a major milestone on a child’s road to independence. Robert Vines, bike consultant at Cycle Loft in Burlington, Mass., teaches three methods for helping kids learn while minimizing bumps and scrapes along the

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My article "Going Green," which appeared in Today's Christian (May/June 2007) recently won third place in the reporting category of the Higher Goals Awards, given by the Evangelical Press Association. Judging the contest this year was Laura C. Johnson, news editor at Columbia Missourian and instructor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

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Muslim and Christian leaders seek common ground in conciliatory letters. Read the full article, which first appeared in Christianity Today's March 2008 issue, online here.

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Faculty member at Iowa State University denied tenure for supporting intelligent design.Read the full article, which first appeared in Christianity Today's February 2008 issue, online here.

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The dollar's fall has squeezed missionary budgets—with no reprieve in sight.Campus Crusade for Christ missionaries to France Dan and May Workman ended their October newsletter with a prayer request for a strengthened U.S. dollar. But in November, the dollar hit an all-time low. It traded at $1.4641 to the euro.Read the full story, which appeared in Christianity Today's January 2008 issue, here.

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Ken Baxter retired from the John Deere facility in Waterloo, Iowa, at customary retirement age. But when given the opportunity to work again as an electronics engineer for Distek Integration, Inc., Baxter, now 70, jumped at it.Unlike some seniors who go back to work, financial incentives didn’t factor into Baxter’s decision.Read the full story here at Today's Pentecostal Evangel online.

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*This article first appeared in the Nov. 18, 2007 issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of, or so the nursery rhyme says. Statistics from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, however, tell a different story, and it’s anything but sweet.The number of girls aged 10-17 arrested for aggravated assault has doubled during the last 20

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The question of whether evangelical voters will support a pro-choice presidential candidate may be determined by another issue: the candidate's stance on the war in Iraq.Read my full story online at Christianity Today here.

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As the bus slowed to a stop, the peals of laughter inside died down; wide eyes peered out the windows in amazement. Jeff Dart, student ministries pastor at Omaha’s suburban Brookside Church (EFCA), glanced at his wife, Christina.Is this really a good idea? he wondered. Are we ready for this?Outside the bus was North Omaha—a place synonymous with poverty and crime. Two to three hundred homeless

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For a growing number of Americans, busyness has become all-consuming. Despite the technological advances that promise to save us time — e-mail, cell phones, BlackBerrys — people are still feeling pressed to speed up their productivity. In the 1960s, futurists predicted by now time-saving technologies would mean wage-earners working a 20-hour week could provide for their households. On the

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It was a crisp September day in Vienna, Austria. Sunlight dazzled on the blue, green and yellow mosaic tiles of the Stephensdom cathedral’s roof, and its spire pointed up to a clear blue sky. Filling the bustling square below, chattering locals and wide-eyed tourists in running shoes strolled past exquisite examples of architecture, stopping for ice cream cones and street performers along the

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“USP opened my eyes to issues I had never encountered,” says Charity Kinney, senior at Evangel University in Springfield, Mo. “My worldview has expanded; I have grown so much spiritually and intellectually. I’ve learned to ask the right questions and to truly rely on God for the answers.”Kinney is not talking about a missions trip. This is college — the Uganda Studies Program, to be exact — where

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New Amnesty International policy says abortion shouldn't be illegalWith the ratification of a new policy on sexual and reproductive rights, Amnesty International (AI) has abandoned its formerly neutral stance on abortion. The 1.5 million-member organization now says that "women and men must exercise their sexual and reproductive rights free from coercion, discrimination, and violence."Read the

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Why more women are waiting until 35 or even 40*This article first appeared in the May 27, 2007, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel. At 50 years of age, Rose Clark isn’t spending her days planning for retirement. Instead, she’s living life all over again — reading classic novels she passed up years ago, rock-climbing in Arkansas, taking horseback riding lessons — all with sons Daniel, 14, and

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Though many Christians question the reality of climate change and global warming, these evangelical leaders have become champions for the environment. But will the church follow?Tri Robinson pastors Vineyard Boise Church in Boise, Idaho, a growing fellowship of more than 3,000 members. He also hunts, fishes, and maintains a ranch outside of town. He voted for George W. Bush—twice—and is a

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From Coach to Swarovski, the shops at Tyson’s Corner Center in McLean, Va., simply sparkle. The scents of leather, suede, silk, perfume and body lotions mingle with the aromas of Starbucks and Cinnabon. For some, it’s an intoxicating experience.Rippling through the shoppers are symptoms of a common condition. They feel discontent, depressed, inferior and even irrelevant until they emerge from a

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*This article first appeared in the April 15, 2007, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.If you are like the vast majority of Xanga, Facebook and MySpace users, what you post online is intended for your friends. But imagine that others are looking at your posts, too — some of whom you really want to impress, but haven’t met yet. People who are in a position to direct your future.That’s exactly

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Check out my latest column on the lies that women's magazines tell us at ZIA online magazine. If you make it to the second page of the column, you'll also see in a sidebar my interview with Dawn Eden (pictured here), blogger, author and deputy news editor for New York City's Daily News. Her book, The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On, was released by W

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*This article first appeared in the Feb. 25, 2007, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.When Amy Bleidorn’s grandfathers served in the U.S. Navy during World War 2, active duty women in the military were seen as an extreme measure for an extreme time. Postwar society expected women to return home to focus on their roles as wives and mothers. Yet, two generations later, Bleidorn has followed in

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An article in the LA Times today reveals that, according to a new study by a San Diego State University psychologist, this generation of college students is more narcisstic--and that sites like MySpace and YouTube only serve to nurture that sense of self-importance. To read the full article, click here. You will need to register to read the entire article, but it's free to do so, and worth it.

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You may have seen in the news the account of a car full of five American missionaries being pumped full of bullets in Mosul, Iraq, in March 2004. There was one survivor, Carrie McDonnall, whose husband, David, was among those killed that day.Read her personal story of what life has been like since that day.Carrie's book, Facing Terror, was published in August 2005 by Integrity Publishers.

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You've probably seen the Dateline series, "To Catch a Predator," which was shocking enough to scare parents into much closer monitoring of their children's blogging. Here is an article written for the kids.

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*This article first appeared in the April 9, 2006, issue of Todays' Pentecostal Evangel.Intelligent Design: Classroom battle over Darwinism heats upby Jocelyn GreenThe clash between those who believe in Darwinian evolution and those who believe in a divine Creator is not a new one. Ever since Charles Darwin published The Origin of the Species in 1859, introducing his theory of evolution to the

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It's that time of year again. . .About 1 million U.S. students participate in some form of springbreak vacation every year. The largest numbers are flocking to tropical hot spots where the common denominator is "fun." Far from innocent, however, spring break these days is anything but child’s play.Read my investigative report here.

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*The following article on emotional affairs was first printed in the Feb. 12, 2006, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Affairs of the Heart: Christians Need to Be Wary of Emotional Entanglementsby Jocelyn GreenThis Valentine’s Day, who will be occupying your thoughts? For more and more people—Christians included—the answer is someone other than their spouse. And though many extra-marital

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Shannon Ethridge is the author of the Every Woman’s Battle books on sexual integrity. In addition to being a writer, she is a speaker, lay counselor and advocate for sexual integrity with a master’s degree in counseling/human relations from Liberty University. She has spoken to youth, college students and adults since 1989. In the following interview, she speaks on the issue of emotional affairs

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Iain McConnell was a Coast Guard Academy classmate of my husband's and a swordsman in our wedding in July 2003. And now he is recognized as one of the heroes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, picking people off of rooftops, saving their lives. Read his story here.

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*This article first appeared in the Dec. 11, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Are filmmakers paying attention to Christian audiences?by Jocelyn GreenAfter the landslide box office successes of The Passion of the Christ and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe about to be released on Dec. 9, Christians and non-Christians alike have their eyes on

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Barbara Nicolosi is executive director of Act One, which runs a three-month program that places Christians in entertainment internships and hosts lectures by industry professionals. She is also one of the editors of Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, And Culture, published in September 2005.Jocelyn Green: On the news release announcing your book Behind the Screen, it says “The

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Walking past homeless people had been just another part of my daily commute to get to my job in Washington, D.C. I may have noticed them, but I certainly didn't "see" them. It wasn't until I did the research for this story, "Homeless for the Holidays" for Today's Pentecostal Evangel, that I took the time to hear the stories of people who turned out to be not so very different from myself.

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*This article first appeared in the Sept. 11, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Spiritual quest drives religious enrollment surgeby Jocelyn GreenFor more than 15 years, certified college counselor Toby Waldorf of Los Angeles, Calif., has been coaching high school students through the college search, selection and admission process. A couple of years ago, she noticed something new:

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*This article first appeared in the Aug. 21, 2005, edition of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Spiritual element key to kicking meth addictionby Jocelyn GreenIce. Glass. Speed. Poor man’s cocaine. No matter what you call it, methamphetamine is the fastest growing drug threat in the country. The high is short-lived, but the damage to the brain (similar to damage caused by Alzheimer's disease, stroke,

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Juliet Schor is a sociologist, a Boston College professor of sociology and author of the book, Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture.Boston College studies reveal that more children go shopping every week than read, go to church, participate in youth groups, play outdoors or spend time in household conversation; children's top aspiration now is to be rich; nearly

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*This article first appeared in the July 17, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.The Overworked American: Employees are putting in more hours in order to keep jobsby Jocelyn GreenAfter a decade of working between 70-80 hours a week for the government, Damien Bradford* decided he needed a change of pace. Switching careers in search of a little family time, he was hired as a hotel manager

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*This article was first printed in the July 10, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Parents Beware: Childhood 'affluenza' coming to a store near youby Jocelyn GreenNo one told ten-year old Noah Christensen of Ramsey, Minn., about the “Nag Factor,” a term marketers use to describe the influence children have on their parents’ purchasing power. But nag he did, and after a couple of years of

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*This article first appeared in the June 12, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.College degree not automatic ticket to career stabilityby Jocelyn GreenIf you had told Julie Fickes (pictured here) that six years after her 1999 graduation from Taylor University (Ind.), she’d be living and working in her hometown of Wooster, Ohio, she would have laughed. Or cried.But after six jobs and

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*This article was first printed in the June 5, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.European ministry efforts continue despite weakening dollarby Jocelyn GreenWhen Assemblies of God Europe regional director Greg Mundis heard that countries in the European Union had adopted the euro as the official currency in 2002, he suspected trouble on the horizon for missionaries there. Being proven

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*This article first appeared in the May 29, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Wedding bell blues: Couples advised to reconsider spending big bucks on ceremonyby Jocelyn GreenSomething old, something new, something borrowed… something due? With 43 percent of couples spending more on their weddings than they had planned (as of November 2004), you better believe it. The wedding industry is

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*This article first appeared in the May 8, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Homeschooling Grows Up: Advocates say socialization fears unfoundedby Jocelyn GreenThe number of students being homeschooled in the U.S. has jumped 29 percent in the past five years, now accounting for nearly 1.1 million children, which is more than two percent of all students. For years past, attention has been

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*This article first appeared in the April 10, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Frantic Family Syndrome: Time to get off the treadmill?by Jocelyn Green“If one more person asks me to do one more thing, I’m going to scream!” Dr. Julie Parton used to say while raising her children.Sound familiar? Even the best of us admit to harboring similar sentiments when our schedules are crammed to the

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*This article first appeared in the March 27, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Hit the Hay for Safety's Sakeby Jocelyn GreenWhat do the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, the oil spill of Exxon Valdez and the loss of the space shuttle Challenger in the 1980s all have in common? They were all triggered by mistakes made by people working on too little sleep. Americans are still trying to

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*This article first appeared in the March 13, 2005, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.When the waves of the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami rolled back to sea, it left a wake of devastation affecting 1.5 million South Asian children. Shortly afterwards, American offers to adopt those children rolled in.While the United Nations and governments of South Asian countries declined the overtures, saying the

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*This article was first published in the Dec. 26, 2004, issue of Today's Pentecostal Evangel.Holiday weight gain can lead to obesityby Jocelyn GreenWith bellies full of holiday goodies and New Year’s Day just around the corner, creating a resolution for fitness seems inevitable for many. Most people gain only one to five pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, but experts say those pounds add

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Stephen Arterburn is the author of Every Man’s Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time and founder of New Life Clinics. He is a national speaker on sexual integrity.Jocelyn Green: With all the documented horrors stemming from the hard-core pornography industry, should we be concerned at all with the soft porn images and lewd articles in women’s magazines at the grocery

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Consumer debt hit an all-time high of $1.98 trillion in October 2003, for an average of about $18,700 of debt per U.S. household. Credit card debt reached $735 billion in January, for an average of $10,000 per card-carrying household.Carly Fillinger's struggle with credit card debt started in college. To read her not so unusual story, click here.

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