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Everyone has had moments where they wanted to disappear for a while. Life’s problems are too much to bear, so we think disappearing will improve everything. Those were Johnny Cash’s thoughts when he walked into Nickajack Cave in 1967. In “Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon,” a documentary detailing Cash’s inspirational story based…

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An “amateur phone collective” in Philadelphia is working to bring back pay phones to the city without the actual payment. PhilTel, a volunteer organization that launched in June, opened its first free-to-use payphone on December 17 at Iffy Books, a hacker-focused bookshop and workshop in the Center City district. Mike Dank, one of the organization’s founders,…

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Award-winning Christian filmmaker Alex Kendrick shares lessons he learned during two medical battles this year, including a mild stroke that placed him in the hospital. “God is good,” he told Christian Headlines. Kendrick, the director of such faith-based hits as War Room and Overcomer, had a mild stroke in March and recently had surgery to remove melanoma skin…

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Nuhamin “Naomi” Bogale’s life changed forever in the blink of an eye. Originally from Ethiopia, the world-class runner had just moved to Colorado to train with aspirations of being a world record holder. She had previously received a sponsorship from Nike before an injury and had won multiple races against the world’s top athletes. In Colorado, she hoped to…

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