PHARISAICAL ADDICTION TO RELIGION: WHAT DID JESUS DO?
Can you “have too much religion”? Depends on what you mean by religion, of course, but from one perspective, the answer is surely, “Yes!” Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines addiction…
FAMILY RULES
The Question “If you take an alcoholic family, and an ultra-conservative family, and you remove the concept of religion and alcohol, and you compare apples to apples in…
ARE CHURCHES ADDICTION SUPPLY INDUSTRIES?
I never felt I was bad enough to be a minister. I’m not saying I was a saint, nor am I claiming to have been a choirboy, but…
“WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU?”
I was sitting in a doctor’s office one afternoon in 1978, flipping through Sports Illustrated. One article caught my eye. Sebastian Coe, a British middle-distance runner, was quoted…
DO YOU PLAY THE ADVENTIST LANGUAGE GAME?
When I lived in England and watched the part of the BBC news in which the results of the day’s cricket matches were announced, I was totally lost.…
I CAN STOP ANYTIME I WANT TO. I JUST DON’T WANT TO.
Do you know why people smoke crack? It’s the same reason why people smoke cigarettes, or weed, or shoot heroin, or do meth, or drink excessive amounts of…