I am not exactly sure when I started offering up my simple go-to prayer internally to God, but I know I have been doing it for years now. Indeed, every time I am concerned for someone I care about's well-being, see something that I think has inherent risk, or fly in a plane, I offer up [...]
There must be a special place in Hell for those who use a cloak of faith and Godliness to visit wrongful acts on others. I am talking about those who abuse the trust that is placed with them as spiritual leaders and behave as if they live by a different set of rules. And the [...]
I have been watching from afar the whole Phil Robertson drama. His comments about homosexuality got him suspended from his show Duck Dynasty by A & E, but the backlash A & E received from followers of the show and those who hold like religious-based views caused A & E to capitulate and retract the [...]
If I was ever in a situation where I had to decide what to do with the last days, weeks or months of my life, I know exactly what I would do. I think there are lots of folks who have bucket lists with trips or things they have never tried, but want to (like [...]
I found God inside a bathroom stall. God came to me via a yellow sticky note attached to the inside of a bathroom stall door in the Memorial Union at NDSU. Now I must say, as someone who has never been a fan of bathroom stall graffiti, that I appreciate post-it note graffiti's ability to provide [...]
With the available driving area becoming narrower with each snow on the streets Cheyenne and I travel to her school I have been taking an alternate route home. I used to just turn around and go back in the same direction from which I came - which was just fine when I didn't have to [...]
I believe that faith resides in the hearts and souls of human beings. It is that which ideally guides our deeds...that which guides the talk we talk and the walk we walk. Regular readers of this blog know that I am spiritual but not always a fan of organized religion. My primary struggle with organized [...]
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