Feeling left out normally isn’t a pleasant experience. But maturity tends to soften the blow by providing a more realistic perspective of a situation. Exclusion isn’t only something we learn to deal with. It often just becomes irrelevant…. Read More

When asked what he’s done to live a healthy life into his nineties, Clint Eastwood once quipped: “I get up every morning and I don’t let the old man in.” This sounds like a great mental strategy to… Read More

Any suggestion that gender can be exchanged or re-formulated breaches the limits of sanity. Everyone in his right mind knows this. As a logical, moral people, we know we shouldn’t even be having conversations about something so preposterous…. Read More

Some might recall a popular catchphrase of the 70’s: “Hey man, WWJD?” It was an acronym for “What would Jesus do?” Though it was seriously overworked, it was often an effective means of administering either encouragement or shame…. Read More

I’d like to think I’ve been the one who chose what I did with my life. But when I look back, that’s not completely true. Just like everybody else, I have specific needs, desires, skills and talents. So,… Read More

It wasn’t actually a physical place, but I spent a lot of time there.   Even though I knew a certain level of responsibility was expected from me, I was convinced I was a work in progress, and… Read More

I couldn’t help notice the young man squirming impatiently in the pew. It continued until the sacraments of The Lord’s Supper ritual were eventually distributed to him and the rest of us present in the local congregation. But… Read More

Human freedom has always been achieved by choice. But that’s not something that’s recently been disclosed in a New York Times Best Seller paperback. These pathetic cycles from enslavement into liberation and back into bondage over the past… Read More