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Little victories

Picture-book heroes … Nick Bland and Freya Blackwood’s the Runaway Hug. The Runaway Hug won the early childhood category. The winners of the 67th annual Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards were announced yesterday. The results are unlikely to cause controversy, although a dominance of heavy themes may raise the familiar [...]

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What are the arguments for, against sending stories to sources before publication?

by Mallary Jean Tenore Published July 25, 2012 1:25 pm Updated July 25, 2012 4:14 pm Washington Post reporter Daniel de Vise is under the spotlight for allowing sources to review one of his stories and suggest changes prior to publication. Forrest Wilder of the Texas Observer outed de Vise Tuesday after obtaining email exchanges [...]

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The Editor’s Mantle Passed on (II)

(Editor’s Note: This series of articles was prepared by Brother Halbrook shortly after the change of editors occurred. we commend it to you as a brief history of Truth Magazine and evaluation of the work of Cecil Willis and others associated with the paper.) Breadth and Balance As was true during its first six years, [...]

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Melinda Gates Fights To Put Birth Control On The Global Agenda — And Save Children’s Lives

Melinda Gates, the co-chair of the bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says that making sure all women have access to birth control must become “a total priority” for countries both rich and poor. The argument was made during a half-hour talk at TED Exchange in Berlin, which I have embedded below. as part of this [...]

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Barbara Nixon: Through peace and love, God is making all things new

Few books in the Bible spark more controversy than Revelation, the work of John of Patmos who shares his apocalyptic vision of ‘end times.’ Layers of meaning can be mined from his symbolic, prophetic words and many disagreements have arisen over time as to how this work should be understood. If you google apocalypse you [...]

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