“Gallup polling last month found that a record 49% of Americans see themselves as politically independent—the same as the two major parties put together.” Apparently, the two parties are seen as ineffectualRead More…

I’m in a Facebook group started by a doctor friend in Africa. She doesn’t spare us. She sends pictures of patients with facial deformities, advanced cancers, the worst medical afflictions possible. ItRead More…

I’m reading a book called The Myth of Normal. (Great title…and such a relief for those of us who often have to swim upstream.) Anyway, the book’s about the body/mind connection. TheRead More…

I think we rarely know everything about everyone in our lives. That’s why we need to be gentle with each other. For most of us, life is a mixed bag. For some,Read More…

“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I’m supposed to do, whatRead More…

The other day I found myself feeling negative about all the negativity in the world. Then I laughed. “You can do better than that, goofball,” I said to myself (with self-love, ofRead More…

THINGS I DON’T KNOW As the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know. But I know I don’t know A LOT. Recently I discovered that St. Augustine was African (bornRead More…

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and willRead More…

There’s a lot of buzz around a revival that has started at Asbury University in Kentucky as well as the “He Gets Us” commercials, but some people are skeptical. Critical even. (“We’llRead More…