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Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!

LIFE

A Spirituality for busy people

All of us are pushed in a thousand directions over the course of a single day. Spouses, children, parents, work, friends—it can be hard to find the time for daily maintenance, much less the mental space to practice any kind of spirituality…Read Full Article

From U.S. Catholic

SOCIETY

Guns in America

From Wood Lake author Ward L. Kaiser. Maybe this time things will be different. If maps can change things, so can people. Especially when they bring new perspectives to old problems, and solid conviction that the time for change has come. Three perspectives, three disparate sources. Yet they seem to agree: The time for change – real change – has come. Let’s do it!…Read Full Article

From How Maps Change Things

COMMENTARY

On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

For most people April 19 is just another springtime day on the calendar: the baseball season is well underway, it’s often the date for the Boston Marathon, and the cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., are usually just past their peak…Read Full Article

From Religion News Service

SUNDAY SCHOOL

6 Items Every Sunday School Room Needs

Certain items on hand promotes fun and reduces frustration. This allows us to focus on the heart of the matter, which is, of course, sharing God’s love and stories from the Bible…Read Full Article

From build faith

HISTORY

This ‘Million Dollar Mermaid’ Urged Women To Be Physically Free

For all her efforts to help women become comfortable with their bodies, and for all her athletic and show-business accomplishments — the 1952 biopic “Million Dollar Mermaid” starred Esther Williams as Kellerman — she claimed the question that still dogged her the most was, “Do you still wear the one-piece bathing suit?”…Read Full Article

From Good