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Apply It

This page features resources and tools for applying compassion and kindness to our personal lives and communities.

Kindness is Not Weakness

guy with hand on his face

Kindness is often looked at as showing weakness —especially towards those who view themselves as your enemy. They are often the ones we feel least …

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Kindness Saves a Life

airplane gliders

James Stecker, Ton te Sligte, and two other members of the Amsterdamsche Club voor Zweefvliegen (Amsterdam Club for Glider Flying) excitedly pulled into the parking …

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Churches That Stand Out

What’s makes a church unusual? It takes more than the expected fare of good worship music, dynamic preaching, and well designed sanctuaries with lots of …

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What is Love?

Teenage boys can be the most loving people on earth sometimes. No. Really. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about love and kindness lately. …

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Waiting

Waiting

Not long ago I found myself waiting, yet again, to board a flight. But this wait was a little bit different than others: I had …

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Joy in the Mourning

“I don’t know if I want kids,” I told my husband more than once. “I could live with or without them,” my phlegmatic husband would …

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Team Kindness

lady putting on mask

The date was March 30, 2020. Our state governor had just issued a stay-at-home order. No more than 10 people were allowed to gather at …

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The Standard for Truth

standing near a misty forest

I must have walked up on a heated political discussion being held by a handful of salt-of-the-earth-looking kind of folks, although unmasked and not socially …

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Who Gets the Blessing?

inside of car - lady driving

I’m temporarily living in a duplex we own in the small tourist town of Marietta, Ohio. After living 20 years in an old farmhouse surrounded …

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