Right off the bat, let me say this will not be a list of things you as a man can do for, to, or with, the woman in your life in order to have a better relationship with her. It will not be habits, gestures or practices you can exercise which will please your wife or girlfriend. This is because it will...

Recently Donald Miller, a person I admire and respect immensely, wrote a two-part blog speaking to young men and women, presumably of an age where they have been dating a while and are considering marriage, about how they can live a better, more authentic love story. Miller, in his writing, speaks to...

Some people do funny things with their Bibles. Apart from using them occasionally to cover stains on the back seat of the car, or place between Rob Bell’s latest book and the coffee table to stop a portal to hell from being scorched into it’s surface (if hell really exists, that is), the Bible...

I’ve been doing some thinking about marriage lately, in light of the recent decision by New York state in the U.S. to legalise homosexual marriage, as reported by the New York Times. I myself am married. I committed this act when I was all of nineteen years old. The person I married was just eighteen,...

I have a new job. I am now a mental health rehabilitation support worker. You can tell I’m pretty proud. This new job entails my going out to visit people with a mental illness in their home and supporting them in what we call ADL’s – activities of daily living. These are things like making beds,...

Well, it’s May 24, it appears that the rapture didn’t occur, and the apocalypse hasn’t commenced, as some predicted. Yet. We Christians must be resigned to sticking around just a while longer. I can only imagine the disappointment amongst Harold Campings’ followers today. Some had sold everything...

I don’t go to many Christian conferences these days. Well, I’m lying about that. I actually don’t go to any Christian conferences. I especially don’t go to the conferences I’m expected to go to. You know the ones. You know. Don’t make me say it. I’ll spell it out for you. I’m a woman....

Evacuees stand around Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo Japan March 11, 2011. (Photo: REUTERS/KYODO Kyodo) The earth is groaning. Floods. Cyclones. Earthquakes. And that’s not all. Revolutions. Wars. Rumours of wars. My mind echoes with the booming words of preachers from my youth, warning that the days...

You'd be shocked how hard it was to find an image for this article. I’ve just read in the Sunday paper about this “new” phenomenon of the female mid-life crisis. Apparently, up until quite recently, middle-aged women didn’t actually have crises. Try telling that to past generations of...

Today I got myself into trouble again.  On Facebook.  I know.  I don’t seem to be able to help myself.  It’s the status updates. There are two mainproblems I have: One – what others put on their status update.  Two – taking exception to what others put as their status updates.  In any case,...