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The Watchdog (100-word story)

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I never envied Apollo or his sleepless nights outside the nursery door, keeping watch over the precious life within, at least never until the evening phone calls began to frighten her. But after several nights of successive threats and spreading fear, I remembered Apollo and I laid my blankets outside…

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joseph meister lived

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In 1885, a young boy named Joseph Meister was attacked and mauled by a rabid dog, thus contracting the dreaded rabies disease. At the time of this attack, the famed researcher, Louis Pasteur, was experimenting with a rabies vaccination for animals. He had successfully developed a vaccine that seemed to…
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In Times Like These...

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During a bubonic plague outbreak in 1527, the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther gave this pastoral advice: “I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in…
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What excellence looks like

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This is what my daily sermon looks like. Every morning after I drop Maddie off at school, I watch this crossing guard work the intersection of Benson and Arrow Highway and I am inspired. I don’t know this guy’s name, occupation, or station in life, but for a few seconds…