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Ben Witherington
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following: 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6would be from the United States. 80 would live in substandard housing 50 would…
THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF ‘ROBOTS’,’BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE’,’OLIVER TWIST’, AND THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED’
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Ben Witherington
Finding good and wholesome family entertainment in this day and age is like searching for the holy grail sometimes. We keep hoping it is out there somewhere, but it is ever so hard to find. Two exceptions to this rule can be found in two movies recently released on DVD— ‘Because of Winn Dixie’ and…
Opus Magnum
By
Ben Witherington
Weary, worn, welts on handWork has whittled down the manTo the bare necessitiesOf what he is, and what he’ll beWas this then his destiny? Defined, refined by what we do,The toilsome tasks are never throughThorn and thistle, dirt and dustSweeping clean, removing rustAll to earn his upper crust? Sweat of brow, and carried weightRose too…
Tis a Gift to be Simple– the story of Kevin
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Ben Witherington
A friend of 30 plus years sent this to me. I thought you would want to see it. It raises the question— what is normal in God’s eyes, and what is a handicap in God’s eyes? GOD LIVES UNDER THE BED Don’t start reading this one until you’ve got more than 3 or4 minutes to…
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