Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
The piece urges calm in facing life’s many difficulties and cites Marcus Aurelius on inner strength. A Tokyo shrine scene shows a man seeking healing through incense, illustrating faith versus doubt and the speaker’s playful interaction about directing steam to the heart.
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Positive
Norman Vincent Peale
Marcus Aurelius
Tokyo
The Law of Averages in a Dodger Hitter
A Brooklyn Dodgers star known for batting over .300 jokes about striking out. At a home dinner after a game, he says he will strike out about 90 times this season, calm under the law of averages.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
National League Baseball
Brooklyn
Ebbets Field
Dodger
Why Jews Irish lead in earnings in religious groups
Mark Clutter reports on a Ford Foundation study showing Jews and Irish Catholics top income lists among white religious groups, with Baptists lowest and Episcopalians higher than some Catholic groups. Geography and family dynamics are cited as factors, while Mormons are excluded from the study.
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Fishermen on the lake test faith with stepping stones
In a boat near land a priest walks ashore in faith, the rabbi follows, and a Baptist struggles with the idea of stepping stones. The scene ends with the priest asking the rabbi if they should tell him about the stepping stones.
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Baptist
Missionary to America Bishop details rapid growth in Kenya
The Rev. Lawi Imathiu, Kenya Methodist bishop, says Kenya is 60 percent Christian, up from 30 percent twenty years ago. He notes Kenya’s major churches, outlines threefold mission involving evangelism, aid, and hospitals, and discusses polygamy, poverty, languages, and Western influence.
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Method
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