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Everyone has had moments where they wanted to disappear for a while. Life’s problems are too much to bear, so we think disappearing will improve everything. Those were Johnny Cash’s thoughts when he walked into Nickajack Cave in 1967. In “Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon,” a documentary detailing Cash’s inspirational story based…

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An “amateur phone collective” in Philadelphia is working to bring back pay phones to the city without the actual payment. PhilTel, a volunteer organization that launched in June, opened its first free-to-use payphone on December 17 at Iffy Books, a hacker-focused bookshop and workshop in the Center City district. Mike Dank, one of the organization’s founders,…

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Award-winning Christian filmmaker Alex Kendrick shares lessons he learned during two medical battles this year, including a mild stroke that placed him in the hospital. “God is good,” he told Christian Headlines. Kendrick, the director of such faith-based hits as War Room and Overcomer, had a mild stroke in March and recently had surgery to remove melanoma skin…

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The attorney for Norma Thornton, a 78-year-old grandmother from Arizona who was arrested earlier this year for feeding the homeless in a public park, praised her “kindhearted” client and explained why she believes authorities violated her constitutional rights. Diana Simpson, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, a law firm working to defend Americans’ civil…

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