Tag: spiritual mindedness

Gritty rats and immune systems

June 22, 2006 | No comments yet

Two studies claim rats and mice living in sewers and filthy environments are healthier and have stronger immune systems than their cousins who live in squeaky clean labs. Researchers see a lesson for humans. People can overdo concerns about hygiene.

Medicalizing human behavior

June 9, 2006 | No comments yet

Claude Lewis got it right in a column he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He began, “It may be hard to recall, but once there was a time when people took responsibility for their behavior, without recourse to the psychiatric

Disease-mongering

June 7, 2006 | 1 comment

Have you noticed how pharmaceutical companies market disease to prompt people to buy their medicines? Actors and actresses in ads sneeze, cough, writhe in supposed pain, and put on a show of utter misery to catch viewer’s attention. Then a

Where’s your church?

June 3, 2006 | 3 comments

Where do you find church? One thinker told me recently that he discovered church in the towering trees, in the shimmering lakes, in the happy songs of birds and in the squishy turf he felt under his shoes as he

"I want it now"

May 30, 2006 | 1 comment

A recent AP poll says Americans are impatient. Can you believe it! Survey results confirm we’re a nation of customers seeking instant self-gratification and any bit of delay in getting what we want frays nerves. Waiting in a grocery line,