Monthly Archives: May 2017
Was Jesus the most handsome dude of time? Artists of ages past are criticized today by identity purists for portraying Jesus as having traits considered handsome in European culture. He was poor, he lived in the wilderness, he was fully man in an age of no antibiotics. After his crucifixion he was scarred and disfigured from torture. Even after his resurrection, since his own followers didn’t recognize him at first, there is a good chance in his glorified resurrected body…..
When you want something done, and it is very difficult or seems impossible, here are five approaches that can help. They work for physical activity but also for improving interpersonal skills and many other types of objectives. Dream about it. Envision the end in your mind, awake or asleep. Feel yourself mentally going through the steps to get there. “Sleep on it” actually does help you learn, by letting your brain play with this envisioning the end state while disabling…..
In the wealthy USA where 99% of people have running water and adequate sanitation, authorities are not kind to moms without resources. The surrounding geographic area often has resources like running water that a mother can access without charge and at most hours of the day. The water is more accessible than to most mothers in Bangladesh, more accessible than clean water is to 633 Million people on this planet in this day and age. Americans sponsor projects to get…..
How many Bible verses do you know by memory that you can recite right now? How much of the Bible have you read? Why would you bother, you ask? In times of trouble, what is oldest and deepest returns to mind. When there was a fire in my house and I had a bit of smoke inhalation I called a fire department in a town I hadn’t lived in for twenty years ( I should have called 911 but because…..
10 Principles John D. Inazu, a lawyer, examines how to survive and thrive as a country with deep differences in his book Confident Pluralism. His recommended principles account for what we have learned since Roger Williams first successfully cleaved church and state apart in 1644, and they account for faith-like organizations that do not meet in a church. If Moses’s 10 commandments, that Roger Williams split down the middle, divide between an individual’s responsibility to God (church) and to fellow…..