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A Prayer for Soldiers

The Cadet Prayer at West Point calls upon God, "Searcher of human hearts," to help these future soldiers live above "the common level of life,"

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He Had the Power of the Happy Man

When word came of his death, I was literally planning the particulars of a trip to Washington for the inaugural conference of Pepperdine University's Jack F. Kemp Institute for Political Economy.

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Prodigal Son

For all too many years, eminent novelist and biographer A.N. Wilson was a self-satisfied atheist, a proud member of the British unbelieving intelligentsia, along with Richard Dawkins and expatriate Christopher Hitchens. But no more. Andrew Norman Wilson has come home.

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Saint Nuno of Saint Mary

Nuno Alvares Pereira, born in 1360, was a descendant of Charlemagne and, by the marriage of his daughter to a son of the King of Portugal, became ancestor to many shapers of history, including Catherine of Aragon and Mary Tudor.

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Serving others is its own reward

My father, freshly arrived from Maryland, sat in his hotel room placing batteries into a flashlight as diligently as a boot camp recruit loading a rifle under a drill sergeant's stare.

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