Religion & Spirituality examines how humans try to reach God with or without Christ (religion), and the awareness one has regarding life and spiritual things (spirituality). Being religious or spiritual does not necessarily mean being godly.
I frequently encounter people who try to refute that the American form of republican government was founded upon the principles of the Bible – the Word of God. They insist many of the Founding Fathers were simple deists, and that …
Have you ever done something with a sense of reluctance? It may have been something someone asked you to do and you felt obligated. You consented and did what you were asked to do, but you did it with reluctance. …
Where do I begin? Another Christian musician has ‘come out’ in a recent article in Billboard. The tragedy of Trey Pearson is, unfortunately, becoming a little more common. The article recounts Trey Pearson being filled with conflicting emotions, mental anguish …
Transgendered, sexual orientation disturbance, androgynous, genderqueer, gender dysphoria, multi-gendered, gender non-conforming. These are some of the terms used to describe those who have a mental disorder which contradicts their physical makeup and assigned sex at birth. This topic recently came …
God loves the lost, and God’s desire is that the lost should be saved. This fact is missed because many people have an image of God as some old bearded guy sitting on a throne somewhere ‘up there.’ He’s just …
Teenagers are notorious for short attention spans and a focus that is easily distracted. Such was my demeanor at 16 years of age when I spent the summer with my grandfather helping him remodel a fishing cabin into his retirement …
I frequently have opportunities to talk to unbelievers about God, and it just so happens that because of my work in healthcare many of them are very intelligent and/or highly educated. They are not dummies. The have all kinds of …
Did you ever have something that you really liked or enjoyed that eventually “lost its luster”? Most people have – I did. When I was in grade school one of the things I loved to do with my friends after …
“Make America Great Again!” Those words strike a chord with a lot of folks, doesn’t it? Images of American independence, industrial might and military prowess leap to our minds when we hear them. That phrase, for some people, can illicit …
My father was a career military man having joined the Air Force at the age of 18, fresh out of high school. He served faithfully during my childhood, for twenty years – retiring the same spring that I graduated from …