Challenge Good News Paper - October 2020
The unseen at Halloween
Light-hearted thrills, tricks and frights add fun to Halloween's "family-friendly" festivities but the roots of this celebration are steeped in something darker than horror movies, spooky costumes and trick-or-treating.
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Queer childhood for a pastor
The ugliest thing Caleb Kaltenbach saw through a childhood of being taken to gay pride marches and wild parties was.... Christians holding up signs saying "God hates you."
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I was out to kill Billy Graham
George Palmer and his boys, armed with concealed zip guns, didn't go to the Billy Graham crusade to hear him preach. They went to kill him.
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12-year-old murderer thought he could not be forgiven
Ronnie Legg was told by a psychologist that there was no forgiveness available to him from God.
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Some answers to anxiety
2020, with its challenges and difficulties, will not be a year we forget in a hurry!
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Seabed circle ‘whodunnit?’
In 1995, divers off the coast of Japan discovered circular structures about two metres (6 ft) in diameter carved in the seafloor sand.
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Brought together as teens for good
Probably no one who knew Greg Akers' childhood would be particularly surprised that he grew up to be a Christian missionary.
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Letter to Billie Eilish who says she was once “super religious”
Eighteen-year-old American singer/songwriter Billie Eilish has become the youngest person ever to win the four main Grammy categories
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Testing teens can teach a thing or two
As the mother of three teenagers I am learning many lessons about my parenting, and about my faith, through them.
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What happens when we die, Mum?
Vasily Zhugylov, originally from Kyiv in Ukraine, remembers asking his mother some serious questions when he was about nine.
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I used intimacy to feel valued
Ronald McCray lived as a gay-identified man for six years and didn’t think he could ever change.
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Forgiving yourself for teen mistakes
It was 1970. Kerry Ellen was only 15 when she found herself alone and terrified in a sparsely furnished, cold room.
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A case for kindness
The more that violence fills the news, the more we need examples to give us hope.
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Defender of the faith
Canadian hockey player Mike Fisher's story is for readers who may think that Christians are weak people who come to faith for a "crutch"
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Ex-dealer now sharing better high
At 13 Herman Mendoza began taking drugs and then started dealing in order to support his habit.
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From Prisoner to Princess
Emotions and feelings have held Tina Cook captive for most of her life.
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Just think!
Human beings are equipped with the ability to learn and reason.
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The proof is in the proteins
Most scientists have been interested in science from a young age, and Dr Brian Thomas is no exception.
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My life began in a crack house
Sana Cotten was only four years old when police raided her home.
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