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Can I Vent Without Backbiting?

Makeena Rivers — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Most of us rely on a good “vent” every once in a while — you know that feeling when you need to unload the weight of heavy emotions to a...

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How to Bring Truthfulness Back into Our Culture

Glen Cotten — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Our societies face a crisis of truthfulness, where obfuscation, falsehood and lying have overcome and even taken the place of truth-seeking. How then can we restore truthfulness? To answer this...

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Seeking God’s Acceptance — Not Other People’s Approval

Makeena Rivers — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

As social creatures, we naturally want to find a group of people we can connect with to be part of something bigger than ourselves. It’s easy to fall into the...

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The 5 Love Languages – and Loving Our Creator

Scott Young — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000

In his mystical book The Hidden Words, Baha’u’llah confirmed that the Creator loves us all with an immensity that we cannot comprehend: “I loved thy creation, hence I created thee.”...

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Unlearning Cut-Off Culture

Makeena Rivers — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000

When was the last time you felt like you had to cut someone out of your life? What did they do that pushed you to the point of removing yourself...

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What to Do, Spiritually, When You Really Don’t Like Someone

David Langness — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000

It happens to all of us: we meet someone, just do not instinctually connect with that person, and can’t find a way to like him. It’s a common enough experience...

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Ghosted? What It Looks Like to Treat Others with Dignity

Zarrín Caldwell — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000

I read the book Dignity, by Dr. Donna Hicks, a while ago, but the title drew me in again, because I’ve been thinking about the topic a lot lately –...

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Escaping Toxic Expectations in Friendship

Makeena Rivers — Sat, 17 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000

As a young kid I always felt sensitive to being left out. I paid close attention to the way social groups formed, who was valued, and who got left in...

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Neighborliness: A Step Toward Unity and Strength

Michelle Goering — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000

In the summer of 2020, our neighbor did something incredible for our family. My husband Tim and I were driving home from Kansas, where we’d gone to see my mother,...

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Spiritual Considerations for Avoiding Estrangement

David Langness — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000

You’ve probably seen the clichés, the chatter, and the listicles online: “5 Reasons to Ditch a Toxic Relationship,” or “How to Cancel Your Toxic Friend.” If you’re thinking about taking...

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