Not Parents Needed, But One Parent

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. " (Genesis 2: 24-25) Strange but true — the first mention...

Poll-Vaulting

Romney's ahead, Obama's ahead, and sometimes in the same state on the same day. Pols are pouting or parading different polls to pull in votes. The number of polls in the past pails in compelling comparison to today's polling. Whichever way the poll pulls...

Sense of Sin Makes us Sensitive

I used to be the really sensitive type, convinced that people, places, and properties could make me mad. Yet then I read about the fruits of the Spirit in a different "spirit": "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,...

"He's A Weirdo!"

"Weirdo!" That's what one of the students started chanting in a high-pitched voice just out of place in a classroom in juvenile hall. "Weirdo!" Once again, yet this time, the probation officer conducting the group of ten adults chided them:...

Teaching: Not My Bag

Teaching was not my bag, after all. I never understood why I felt so out of sorts, especially after I had achieve the first markers of "adulthood." I moved out of the house. I moved into my own apartment. I had a job. I had the car. Yet that was all that I...