Archive for April, 2010

I first saw Jamie Oliver's cooking shows when I was living over in Switzerland, mostly when I was running at the gym watching him cook gorgeous meals on

Are you considering taking your own life? Don't do it! Here are at least four reasons why you shouldn't: Typically, those who actually do it regret it at the

It's probably true that most people would think in terms of opposites here. Most likely, faith would be seen as located on one extreme end of the spectrum,

 "What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean'… the things that come

by Joshua Eric Murray "YOU THINK THIS PLACE CAN HOLD ME?!" That's a line a magician says in the movie The Prestige when he’s getting hauled off to jail in

Ignorance and faith just don't go together. If fact and evidence play so important a role in Christian faith, then it follows that there really can't be "ignorant

For those who remember, Easter is the time we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. It's not the time for bunnies, college vacation on the beach, or highlighting the

Matthew 27:15-24 A Modern Spin on Jesus Before Pilate Now it was that the elders got together to hear what the complainers had to say and to decide what to

By Lawrence J. O'Neill Some 36 years ago, I met Glen. I was a young police officer in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he was an even younger

We hear a lot these days about "blind faith." But can faith really be blind? Not if it's fact-based. And it seems that it’s not possible to "take