And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none. He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’ “But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’” Luke

John Gruden had a spotless resume. He won two division titles and led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XXXVII in 2002. At age 39, he was the then-youngest head coach to win the Super Bowl. However, all of that changed when a leaked email revealed he had used email in which he used a racist trope to describe DeMaurice Smith, the head of the N.F.L. Players Association. The New York Times revealed Gruden had denounced the emergence of women

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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. I Peter 2:9-10 The Nashville Sit-Ins which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were among the earliest non-violent direct-action campaigns in the 1960

On Brennon’s seventh birthday, my in-law's gift was four pairs of shoes. The shoes were not the issue, as was the bag they were in. In haste to make it to the party, my mother-in-law did not have time to gift wrap the shoes or get a birthday gift bag. Instead, she went to the trunk of her car and put the shoes in some bags she had from a store she had recently shopped. All the gifts were placed on a table, and I simply took a picture. It was not until I received several text

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