I recently heard an interview with an anthropologist whose area of study was the native people in far northern Canada. He had studied their stories and legends and worked directly with them for many years. This is one of those arctic (and sub-arctic) people groups who live a purely subsistence lifestyle....

“Allah is not God.” I’m sure you’ve heard this term. You may have even used it a few times.  But what does it mean? What do we really mean when such a catchy slogan jumps out? In any grown-up conversation we should start with the basics; what is the literal agreed upon, dictionary...

I love the USA.  I love everything about it.  I love the Constitution (and ALL of the amendments) and the Declaration of Independence.  I love the Founding Fathers – those who “pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.”  I love my country as a parent loves a child...

Kill your gods. That’s what the graffiti on the wall of the industrial warehouse on the way to the mall said: “Kill your gods.” It’s painted over now, but the message stuck – and seems even more relevant now.  ”Kill your gods” after all, could not be a more...

“I’m sure God sent them to us.” Politicians love to claim credit for the big – and best – changes of history. Life is rarely so simple. There are those odd little movements like twitches on obscure nerve endings that end up reverberating throughout cultures and eras. The twentieth...

“I’m sure God sent them to us.” Politicians love to claim credit for the big – and best changes – of history. Life is rarely so simple. There are those odd little movements like twitches on obscure nerve endings that end up reverberating throughout cultures and eras. The twentieth anniversary...

When I was a kid, we used to play the “opposite game”. A typical conversation would go like this; Me: “I’m not hungry.” My brother: “I’m really not hungry.” Me: “I’m really, really, not hungry.  I’m so not hungry that I couldn’t...

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -Rainer Maria Rilke What question would you ask God? I was naive enough to raise that question in my class at the county jail. These guys; felons, addicts, forty year old high school...