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In honor of Valentine's Day, Arvin High School's Honor Society showed their love by giving back to the community. Students came out to the Arvin Navigation Center (ANC) to deliver gifts to those ...

Scripture speaks of flowers. Some of the most familiar verses are found in the romantic, poetic language of the Song of Solomon. Examples include “the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys,” and ...

Keep your virginity to honour God. An iPhone will come and go. Many girls lost their virginity when BlackBerry phones were in vogue. Where is BlackBerry today? The world has moved on, and it will keep ...

Puff the Magic Dragon,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer” are just some of the popular ‘60s folk songs that will ...

Just before Christmas, a court in Western Australia heard what should have been an otherwise run-of-the-mill mortgage repossession case.

The other night, two things happened that gave me great encouragement. The first was a conversation a professor shared with me that took place in his classroom. In an introductory class that gives ...

Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

We must recognize that reaching the LGBT community, like any other group, is ultimately a work of the Holy Spirit ...

What keeps you from loving others the way you, yourself, crave to be loved? And conversely, what’s lacking in your life (or more accurately, in your heart) that keeps you ...