Resolution of Faith vs Ritual
Religious ritual and faith are locked in a deathly struggle. Are they mutually exclusive? Can strong faith exist in rigid ritualism? This was the battle for the early believers. They discovered it is...
View ArticleEscaping the Death Sentence.
She’d had an uneasy feeling about this guy from the moment he set his leery eyes on her. He didn’t look straight at her but she felt sure he was watching her the whole time. He was up to something –...
View ArticleWhen Faith Meets Sex
Somewhere along her trail she began to see that people struggle with enormous hurts and those hurts aren’t just from the past – they’re from the present and they continue into the future. Nothing gets...
View ArticleThe Ban on Critical Thinking
The problem with a contest is that it producers losers! Ten people race but only one can win; one person gloats about his supremacy while nine people glower in shame and clutch for excuses. There are...
View ArticleHow to enjoy the best of both worlds
The Art of Escapism is living in one place and wishing we were someplace else. Keri’s life had been miserable. She’d lived in the same city all her life until she was twenty years old. Things weren’t...
View ArticleCraftsmanship is in the Eye of the Beholder
Now here’s a real test of faith. Having reminded his readers that they had escaped death because they had been given faith – they had not been rescued because of anything they had done, only by a lucky...
View ArticleWhen I don’t have the answer. . .
He could feel the color in his cheeks as he stood there with absolutely no idea of what to say next. Seemed to him he ought to know the answer and the people standing round him were amused to see he...
View ArticleFooling Around with Inconvenient Truth
Stupidity has a great heritage and strong roots. It is reliably and consistently repeatable. Despite being well-known and sadly familiar to us, it somehow succeeds in surprising us over and over....
View ArticleDon’t You Feel Sorry for Serena Williams?
“I don’t love tennis today but I’m here,” she said after beating Chanelle Scheepers, 6-2, 6-3, in the first round of the Brisbane International. “I can’t live without it — there’s a difference between...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s Secret Message to the President
Did Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu deliver an off the record secret message to President Obama when they met, and why was the message so secret? So Netanyahu has given President Obama a copy of the...
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