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Posted January 2012
Contentment is hard to come by. Just when I think I’m content, I get a phone call, or see something on TV about a kid being brutalized, or a letter from “smile train” with the picture of a distorted-faced child, and they are begging for donations. This is just a tip of the urgent call [...]
Continue ReadingPosted January 2012
As humans, our fascination with the unknown has, since the beginning of time, led our curiosity to resolve the final destiny of mankind. The resolution of the ultimate consummation of this world has throughout history tickled the fancy of thought, imagination, and prediction. Although the eventual finale unequivocally equates to the end of humanity as [...]
Continue ReadingPosted December 2011
The title of this article is a quote from a conversation that I had with a young man recently. We talked at length about “faith” and how we live from a faith-based life. When I asked him to be specific about his doubts, he mentioned the virgin birth as a prime example. That led to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted December 2011
It is notably common in western culture to observe people of diverse religious, social, and ethnic backgrounds, engaged in what they believe to be prayer. Individuals of faith, regardless of their core belief, all have some system of prayer, which allows them a spiritual connection with the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. Whether our [...]
Continue ReadingPosted November 2011
It was my freshman year of high school, as I vividly recall being a handed a book by my English teacher, that I experienced the most challenging episode of my then short educational journey. It was a book that in order to pass her class, I must completely read, comprehend and report back to her [...]
Continue ReadingPosted November 2011
It’s easy to forget how to play. We can take ourselves and “the world” too seriously, and find ourselves whining and complaining about almost everything. We can go along as serious adults so long that we forget what it means to have fun. One of the things I’ve enjoyed about being in Louisiana is the [...]
Continue ReadingPosted October 2011
Christopher McCandless, a young American, abandons the life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road. He burned his credit cards and set out for the Alaskan wilderness; the challenge of surviving without modern-day conveniences before him. About two years later, his body was found in an old abandoned bus in Alaska [...]
Continue ReadingPosted October 2011
At the core of every person’s religion is his or her own evaluation of their faith. Even if a person chooses not to believe the existence of God, their unbelief still encompasses a body of faith that is sustained by belief without seeing. As human beings, our lives are governed by the unseen that is [...]
Continue ReadingPosted September 2011
Part I Life is indeed a school and the minute you were born, your class was in session. I thought about this the other day while visiting a friend. She was having a pretty rough time, one burden or crises after another, it seemed. “I suppose all of us are entitled to our own problems,” [...]
Continue ReadingPosted September 2011
Over the past three hundred years, we as Americans have made tremendous strides to mend and blend cultures of diverse ethnicity. Regardless of how we arrived in this country, either on a voluntary boat ride, or on a forced one, we found ourselves on the shores of America. From its earliest history, and even more [...]
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