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A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and the Empowerment of Women
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Jana Melpolder
Meet Leymah Gbowee, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who works to help empower women in her own community. She has been through the difficult struggles alongside women in her native country, and through it all she has shown great faith and strength. Simply put, I like her.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Occupy Wall Street
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Jana Melpolder
What would the incredible MLK think of faith leaders today? I think that he would not have supported certain points of the Occupy Wall Street movement, such as people writing graffiti to get the message across. Civil disobedience has been an important point in Occupy Wall Street, but we sometimes forget that decades ago people…
Quotes for the Restless Heart
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Jana Melpolder
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh “The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic’s terrible.” – Jeff Taylor “Courage is contagious. When…
God Provides in Times of Need
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Jana Melpolder
This week has been incredibly cold in New York City. You walk around and the chill just gets to you. As soon as I could, I dressed in several layers to keep warm before I hit the streets of the Big Apple. I didn’t have many winter clothes when I moved to New York, but…
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