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A nativity scene at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina was abruptly removed last week. Now we know why. The recommendation to remove a Nativity from a Christmas display at the base came from Pentagon lawyers who feared the plastic Baby Jesus could give the appearance that the military …

Encouragement is like air — you can’t live without it. Without encouragement, there can be no empowerment for living a full and abundant life. Everyone needs an encouraging word. It inspires us to develop faith, hope and love for the future. A discouraging word will steal, kill and destroy us, …

It’s the 40th anniversary of Erica Jong’s “Fear of Flying,” which some have described as a breakthrough book for women and for modern feminism. Reduced to its common (and I do mean common) denominator, the book, which was written in the appropriately named “Me” Decade of the ’70s, encourages women …