Americans are uniquely infected with “affluenza” according to authors John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor, and David Horsey.1   They claim Americans confuse “the good life” with “the goods life,” spending more than $21,000 per year on consumer goods.  This disease contributes to our credit card indebtedness tripling in the 1990s, more people filing…

What is twelve times twelve? Most of us, if we were paying any attention in school, know the answer is a gross – 144. Okay, then what’s thirteen times thirteen?  Gotcha, didn’t I?  That’s because in our school multiplication tables, we stop at twelve – the last number before the compounds (“three-ten” for “thirteen”) kick…

Baseball and blacks. This spring, when the Washington Nationals played an exhibition baseball game against Bethune-Cookman College, the school fielded almost two dozen white and Latino players.  The irony is that the Bethune-Cookman is a historically black institution.  Today, just five of the 28 players on the roster are African American. There are even fewer…

Up until 1994, Rwanda was hailed as a leading “Christian nation.” Proportionate to its population, it had more evangelistic crusades – and more recorded converts – than perhaps any other African nation.  Then, on April 6, 1994, Rwandan President Habyarimana and the Burundian President were killed when Habyarimana’s plane was shot down near Kigali Airport. …

At this time of writing, time is running out for Terry Shiavo, so let’s get to the issues (and there are many): First and foremost, the Judeo-Christian tradition holds to principle of the sanctity of human life.  This is front and center.  But for those who don’t subscribe to this ancient principle, there are others…

“Atheism can’t be right, because I happen to know an atheist who abandoned his wife and children.” If that reverse syllogism doesn’t make a compelling argument, you owe a great debt to Aristotle (the first formal logician), and the fact that you benefited from education rooted in the Western tradition.

“Atheism can’t be right, because I happen to know an atheist who abandoned his wife and children.” If that reverse syllogism doesn’t make a compelling argument, you owe a great debt to Aristotle (the first formal logician), and the fact that you benefited from education rooted in the Western tradition.

See if you agree or disagree with this statement: “Even elected officials who are deeply religious sometimes have to make compromises and set their convictions aside to get results while in government.”

When so many churches have urged people to see Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ, “why did so few (if any?) promote Terry George’s film?” (George directed Hotel Rwanda). This is the question that Brian McLaren – a nationally recognized author and pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland – asks in the…

A friend of mine recently picked up my cell phone and said, “Stop and think about it: Your phone is only as valuable as the network to which it’s connected.”   That’s true – we have a phone to call other people or to make it easier for others to connect with us.   Result: The wider…