Category: spirituality

Ever tempted to criticize?

September 1, 2006 | 5 comments

Are you ever tempted to criticize other people, point out their faults, dwell on their shortcomings and grumble about their disposition? Every person is like a window into a unique view of God. As the windows on our house are

Funeral notices

August 29, 2006 | 1 comment

Have you ever questioned the phrasing “called to the arms of the Lord” when it is written in obituaries? It troubles me when I read the words for they imply it is God’s will for a person to die, which

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