Category: spirituality

The Israelis, the Palestinians, and land

July 27, 2006 | No comments yet

The Hizballahs attacked the Israelis with rockets over Israel’s northern border, and the Israelis are counter-attacking fiercely. There’s fear of a larger conflict erupting in an already red-hot Middle East. Will the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis ever cease?

Medical mistakes run rampant

July 22, 2006 | No comments yet

A new report states: A hospitalized patient is subject to at least one medication error per day. 1.5 million Americans are injured from medication mistakes every year. No one is claiming health-care professionals are intentionally making these errors, but alarm

The perils of cloning

July 7, 2006 | 1 comment

It’s been ten years since Dolly’s birth, the lamb that was cloned in Scotland. Time magazine reported this week, “Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first little lamb—mice, cats, cows, pigs, horses and, most recently, a dog—and it’s

Be free

July 4, 2006 | 4 comments

July 4th is Independence Day in the United States, a time when US citizens celebrate their right to self-government and self-directed sovereignty. There’s an even greater freedom than political and religious rights, though, that people the world over can celebrate.

Cuckoo bird and averting fear

June 30, 2006 | 5 comments

It’s one of the biggest cons in the bird kingdom. The famous cuckoo bird rarely builds its own nest. When ready to lay eggs, mother cuckoo looks for a nest with eggs similar to hers already in it. When mom