Here's our daily list of articles from across the Web about faith and family-related topics as well as our other four areas of emphasis: education, causes, media and moneywise.
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FAMILY
Boy receives precious postcard from his father 2 years after his death — Today.com
How my mom’s cancer taught me the true meaning of beauty — BuzzFeed
Remarriage on the rise, driven by older adults — The Wall Street Journal
Die of a broken heart? It’s a real (though rare) danger — The Sacramento Bee
Invisible threat to maternal and child health — CNN
Mom with disabilities and daughter reunited after two-year court battle — The Daily Beast
Is your teen using apps to keep secrets? — CNN
Inactive children ‘become middle-aged couch potatoes’ — BBC
Irish senator worried marriage equality will ban Mother’s Day — BuzzFeed
FAITH
Why are Americans happy & religious? — Juicy Ecumenism
Do-It-Yourself church unity — Christianity Today
Silent cries: How the church can help people with mental illness — Christianity Today
Minister Creflo Dollar asks for $60 million in donations for a new jet — CNN
Who was St. Patrick? Remembering the Catholic figure with more than just green beer — HuffPost Religion
A Christian nation? Since when? — NYT Opinion
Is your church bending the truth? — Fox News
New report confirms Christians in Britain face widespread discrimination — Breitbart
What does it look like to be a Christian feminist? — RELEVANT magazine
I don’t like going to church. Why should I keep attending? — RELEVANT magazine
‘The Drop Box,’ where disabled babies go to live — The Federalist
EDUCATION
How to survive the college admissions madness — NYT Opinion
Yale Law School is deleting its admissions records, and there’s nothing students can do about it — The New Republic
One year since legalization, Colorado is literally building schools with weed money — Mic
More parents showing interest in whole genome sequencing — Education News
Data shows black students continue to be suspended — Education News
There is no ‘proper English’ — The Wall Street Journal
Oklahoma isn’t alone in race-related fraternity incidents — Fox News
MEDIA
Why Disney’s new Cinderella is the anti-Frozen — Time magazine
In defense of Cinderella’s stepmother — The Atlantic
Paul Feig says it’s still not getting better for women in Hollywood — The Huffington Post
Since Apple couldn’t be bothered, here are some free period and fertility tracking Apps — The Huffington Post
Facebook revamps its takedown guidelines — BBC
For tech titans, sharing has its limits — NYT Now
Kids read mean tweets and it was super upsetting — BuzzFeed
The Church of TED — The New York Times
CAUSES
How low social mobility hurts children — and what we need to do about it — Vox
Acid attack survivors pose as ‘Calendar Girls’ to redefine beauty — HuffPost Impact
Cops, social workers are joining forces to help homeless people get off the streets — HuffPost Impact
MONEYWISE
Managers turn to computer games, aiming for more efficient employees — NYT Now
People who use Firefox or Chrome are better employees — The Atlantic
How to manage up without ever leaving your cubicle — Quartz
How successful people overcome toxic bosses — Quartz
American women can finally expect equal pay—in the year 2058 — Quartz
Why the concept behind ‘lean in’ needs to be modified — Forbes
It’s too bad employees can’t be trusted — Forbes
Are job fairs making a comeback? — BBC
Working from home: Separating the real gigs from the scams — The Los Angeles Times
You are almost certainly starting salary negotiations wrong — Quartz
If you get a raise this year, thank a politician — Quartz
Is too much of my savings going into my retirement? — The Los Angeles Times
Are smartphones making us lazy thinkers? — Today.com
Yes, you can afford a private chef — BBC
Google is pleading with Firefox users to stop using Yahoo — Business Insider
One of tech’s most important investors says ‘you’ll see some dead unicorns this year’ among startups worth $1 billion — Business Insider
This high-school dropout built a $1 billion business selling phones nobody wanted — Business Insider
BONUS: WELLNESS
Aging baby boomers bring drug habits into middle age — The Wall Street Journal
A short walk reduces chocolate cravings — The Huffington Post
How women can wipe out Alzheimer’s — CNN
Smell something different at the gym? It might not be what you think — NPR
How far has the health of moms come since 1995? — NPR
A man’s incomplete brain reveals cerebellum’s role in thought and emotion — NPR
You can teach an old dog new tricks — Newsweek
Woman with rare genetic condition silences critics, becomes model — Fox News
Homeopathy doesn’t work, Australian experts say — Fox News
What happens to you on a plane: Scary health effects of flying — Fox News
Fit Nation: Finding the right life balance — CNN
How to teach doctors empathy — The Atlantic
How the world’s oldest people live so long — The Daily Beast
Herb Scribner is a writer for Deseret News National. Send him an email at hscribner@deseretdigital.com or follow him on Twitter @herbscribner.