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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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The attorney for Norma Thornton, a 78-year-old grandmother from Arizona who was arrested earlier this year for feeding the homeless in a public park, praised her “kindhearted” client and explained why she believes authorities violated her constitutional rights. Diana Simpson, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, a law firm working to defend Americans’ civil…

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A South Carolina woman who recently celebrated her 107th birthday credits the blessings of God for her longevity. “I do what the Bible tells me,” Adell Julie Thompson of Santee, S.C., told WLTX News 19 in Columbia. Thompson was born Oct. 10, 1915 – two years before the United States entered World War I and just three…

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