Negative habits hobble your happiness
      "To fall into a habit is to be gin to cease to be." —Miguel De Unamuno A close friend I've known since we were both youngsters called me to announce that he and his longtime live-in partner were going to call it quits and go their separate ways.
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Lecture series on Hebrews comes to Newbury Park
      Living Oaks Community Church will present a lecture series from the book of Hebrews on Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. at the church, 1033 Business Center Circle, Newbury Park. Senior Pastor Doug Posey will teach the course, "Living a Cut Above.
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CROP hunger walks begin
      Humanitarian agency Church World Service has announced the opening of its 2008-09 CROP Hunger Walk season, during which hunger activists in some 2,000 communities across the nation will begin walking to raise money for the agency's domestic and global anti-hunger programs.
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B'nai B'rith to meet in T.O.
      B'nai B'rith of Conejo Valley will meet at 7 p.m. Mon., Sept. 22 at Temple Adat Elohim, 2420 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks. The meeting will include professional entertainment by Peggy Gohl, Broadway performer and concert singer.
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Sock Monkey Ministries brings comfort to thousands
      Beth VanSickle still remembers the comfort she felt as a child when her grandmother gave her a sock monkey. "It always brought me joy, no matter what I was going through in my life," she said of the stuffed, handcrafted doll.
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Same-sex marriage discussion coming
      The Rev. Marvin M. Ellison, the Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine, will present a free talk on "A Religious Defense of Marriage Equality" at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3 in California Lutheran University's Samuelson Chapel, 60 E. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks.
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