Category: Footprints
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Happy Mother’s Day
Today has marked the 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day since the first official mother’s day service was held at a church in 1908. Anna Jarvis got the Mother’s Day idea as her mother said it would be nice if someone could create a special day to honor mothers. So Jarvis held a special memorial service to…
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Bed Rest Is Working
Are you looking for a part-time job? What is the easiest job you can get? The job description is: you have to stay in bed awake for 16 hours and sleep for 8 hours. You must be a nonsmoker and be in good heath. You’ll receive $17,000 US dollars after completing the stay-in-bed testing. The Bed Rest…
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Whose Message?
Church leaders in British assembled to watch a TV show at a Christian conference. During the conference, these church ministers were watching the Dr. Who episodes and studying their content so that they could come up with some better ideas of how Christianity could be made more appealing to teenagers. For ages Many church leaders have worked so…
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To See or Not to See
After a series of discussions and , the Roman Catholic Church recognized the apparitions of the Virgin Mary did appear to a young girl in the mid-1600s. Mary, Jesus’s mother, was highly respected among the Catholics, who even take their prayer requests to her instead of Jesus. In the Bible there was one man who was called…
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“Truth” Education
In commemorating the May Fourth Movement many local scholars and teachers called on the government to strengthen the education of the Chinese language. They demanded that the teaching of Chinese classics, particularly Confucian classics, should account for more than 55 percent of the Chinese lessons. They also claimed that the teaching of Chinese classics helps in moral teaching,…
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Following Suit
Who is blinking on the pedestrian crossing sign? Male or female? The Swedish government recently ordered its National Road Administration to design female crossing signs instead of male ones found all the time at most of the pedestrian crossings in Europe. The new sign will show a woman crossing the street, hoping to balance the gender issue. An…
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Labor of Love
Happy Labor Day to “those workers who work under the Labor Law.” I can’t think of anyone who can accomplish great tasks than the ancient greatest hero Heracles did. Heracles didn’t undertake the tasks voluntarily, but he submitted to whatever he was demanded and ready to do anything that could could make him clean. The tasks he was given…
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An Alien Mom
Tom was a school-aged boy, whose mother was from Indonesia and couldn’t read and write Chinese. Tom was envious of his classmates because their mothers could study with them and even check their homework. Tom was ashamed of talking about his mother before his classmates. One day, his mother brought a lunch box to him, but he told…
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An Honor Homicide?
Finally back to my writing journal again! I just read an article from Taipei Times on honor killing, which reported an Muslim man murdering his own daughter. The Muslim father discovered that his daughter was falling in love with a British soldier while she was working on an family aid project. Out of disgrace the father then suffocated the daughter…
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A True Worshipper
There was a time when God commanded his people not to make for themselves gods of silver or gold to be worshipped. Instead he ordered them to make an altar of earth on which sheep or cattle must be sacrificed or burned completely. If they built a stone altar for God, the altar shouldn’t be cut…
TJ Gong 