Every hospital has one hallway that seems seven miles long. I’ve been to many hospitals and even though hospitals don’t all look alike, they all look like hospitals – and every one of them has one corridor that seems like its seven miles long. It doesn’t matter how long the hallway actually is. It doesn’t…
The article this week is from a sermon preached by a congregant who wishes to remain anonymous. James Cone teaches at Yale and recently published a book, The Cross and the Lynching Tree. It is a disturbing book. Cone tells the story of how, over a 60-year period (1880-1940), more than 5,000 African American persons…
WASHINGTON (CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The percentage of Americans 30 and younger who harbor some doubts about God’s existence appears to be growing quickly, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. While most young Americans, 68%, told Pew they never doubt God’s existence, that’s a 15-point drop in just five years….
MOSCOW – Almost half of Russians believe homosexuality is a human behavior acquired under the influence of the media, according to a poll taken by the state-owned polling agency VTsIOM earlier this month reports Rianovosti. “Forty-seven percent of the respondents said media and propaganda were the key factors contributing to development of a person’s non-traditional…
In dealing with difficulties and trials in life, it helps to know you’re not alone. Difficulties come into everyone’s life. “My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance; and let endurance have its full effect, so…
Bad things happen to everyone – it’s true. Including me. I remember a particular morning in the office it seemed like there was one problem after another – and they began to add up. It was time to go to lunch and yet another crisis came to my attention and before I knew it, it…
One of my favorite phrases in Scripture is found more than 450 times in the King James Version of the Bible: “It came to pass.” This can be very good news, especially as we’re thinking of wilderness times. Wilderness times come. As sure as the sun will rise – there will be a season in…
We each have our own times of wilderness – and the testing that goes with that. Each wilderness experience that comes our way brings difficulties and struggles – and, also – opportunities for growth and learning. The Gospel of Mark says that there were wild beasts in the wilderness with Jesus. Aren’t our wilderness times…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — Kirk Cameron could have joined the ranks of former TV heartthrobs who rode off into the sunset, reappearing only for the occasional reunion show or career-reviving role in a TV drama. Think Ricky Schroder or Scott Baio. But Cameron, known to millions of Americans as Mike Seaver on…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The Roman Catholic Church announced a major campaign Thursday aimed at bringing attention to what it said were growing threats to religious liberty in the United States, including the pending White House rule requiring health insurance companies to provide free contraceptive coverage to employees of Catholic organizations. An…
