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More than a roof

September 7, 2025August 27, 2025

Volunteers in North Carolina transform shelter rooms, restoring comfort and stability for families in crisis.
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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags A Lotta Love, Families Moving Forward, interior design, Lotta Sjoelin, Melissa Cross, trauma informed design

The end of affirmative action

September 7, 2025August 25, 2025

Colleges face a new era of admissions after the Supreme Court calls for race-neutral policies.
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Categories Legal Docket Tags affirmative action, bench statements, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, equal protection clause, Fourteenth Amendment, race-neutral admissions, Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard, Students for Fair Admissions v UNC, Supreme Court, University of North Carolina

Evidence Unseen

September 7, 2025July 19, 2025

Conceived as a publicity stunt, the Scopes trial raised the most significant question of all.
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Categories Doubletake Tags creation, Darwin's Secret Sex Problem, Discovery Institute, Ed Larson, evolution, Genesis, John Thomas Scopes, problems with evolution, Scopes trial, Summer for the Gods, Tennessee v Scopes, theistic evolution

Sketching stories, sharing faith

September 7, 2025May 21, 2025

From The Hiccupotamus to illustrations of Scripture, Aaron Zenz uses creativity to reflect God’s story.
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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags Aaron Zenz, children's book, children's book author, creative, creativity, drawing scripture, illustrating scripture

Escape from Vietnam

May 4, 2025April 30, 2025

How the fall of Saigon shaped one boy’s life and faith.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags boat people, faith, fall of Saigon, Hung Le, Orderly Departure Program, re-education camps, Vietnam, Vietnamese refugees

Finding a place for nuclear waste

May 4, 2025March 31, 2025

The Supreme Court weighs Texas’ challenge to a proposed storage site for spent nuclear fuel.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags Interim Storage Partners, nuclear energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, spent nuclear fuel, Supreme Court, Texas

Fighting for Sabbath rest

May 4, 2025February 8, 2025

A special legal episode about a mailman, his faith, and the byzantine legal rules of religious liberty in the U.S.

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Categories Doubletake Tags constitutional law, Genesis 1, Gerald Groff, Groff v DeJoy, rest, sabbath, Shabbat, Sunday sabbath, Supreme Court

Navigating the wilderness of grief

May 4, 2025November 9, 2024

A personal story that explores the pathways of the human brain, the trails in the Rocky Mountains, and the road of grief.

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Categories Doubletake Tags death of mother, dementia, grief, lost, navigation, San Juan, wilderness

On the trail with Lewis & Clark

May 4, 2025October 15, 2024

A historian and cartographer talk about the path taken by the Corps of Discovery.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags Corps of Discovery, Lewis & Clark, northwest passage, The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail

Remembering 9/11

October 2, 2024September 11, 2024

A story about the Waves of Flags display at Pepperdine University.

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Categories The World and Everything in It Tags 9/11, Pepperdine University, September 11, terrorist attack, Waves of Flags
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  • More than a roof
  • The end of affirmative action
  • Evidence Unseen
  • Sketching stories, sharing faith
  • Escape from Vietnam
  • Finding a place for nuclear waste
  • Fighting for Sabbath rest
  • Navigating the wilderness of grief
  • On the trail with Lewis & Clark
  • Remembering 9/11

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