Monthly Archives: October 2015
Isn’t it interesting that the only time we’re able to sit still for our life portraits is when we’re dead? Instead of carefully painting them ourselves we end up handing the brush and palette to a pastor, family member, or friend. We spend a lifetime carefully writing the story of our lives and then abruptly ask others to create a eulogistic…..
The Special Olympics began in the early 1960’s as a series of small sports camps for the intellectually disabled but has grown to involve more than 4.5 million athletes from over 170 countries. I suspect that we have all been touched by the ever-present smiles on their faces as they joyfully compete. We see the thrill of victory in simple…..
Our postmodern culture has adopted the poorly informed, yet profoundly tolerant stance that, “All paths lead to God!” We are all just spiritual mountain climbers taking different approaches to the same divine peak. While it is true that all religious paths do end on a summit, the problem is that each summit is located on a completely different mountain…..
Atheists are haunted by the clanging chains of the spiritual ghost wandering their fine-tuned physical factories. They cannot escape the fact that humans are composite physical and spiritual beings. We are in the awkward position of having one foot in the spiritual world and one foot in the physical world. We are puzzled by the fact that we can…..
