In 1902 James Allen wrote a little book that has become a classic. His book was titled As a Man Thinketh, and it is taken from thoughts in the book of Proverbs, namely, Proverbs 23:7. In the context t...
This last Sunday my wife and I attended Marsden First United Methodist Church on South Road, by John Smith's Bay. We were there to support our friend Eugene Phillips, who was filling in for Marsden's ...
Each person has got to live his or her own life. It is a gift and a personal responsibility.
No one else can live your life for you, and that is both a blessing and a curse.
On the one hand you get ...
As I write this I have learned that Tony Scott, the director of several successful action movies, has killed himself.
Apparently, he jumped off a bridge in Southern California. One of my favourite lin...
I am on a train heading from Boston, South Station to Penn Station in New York City. We have been spending a few days in New York and then visited family in Boston. Today, before boarding the train, w...
Paul Tillich wrote about many things, but one of the ideas he promoted was that of ultimate concern. He asserted that people are most concerned about the big-ticket items of existential thought: Who a...
Once upon a time my brother and I hitchhiked from Sacramento, California up over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, across the desolate Nevada landscape, through the Utah alkali flats, into the Rocky Mounta...
My wife and I went to see the movie 'Brave', when it was playing at the Liberty Theatre.
I felt a bit out of place. We sat down and then I began seeing several pairs of little eyes turning around to ...
Most people who read my column realise that I write about spiritual issues on a regular basis. Actually, I write about issues that cross categories, including psychology, philosophy, psychotherapy, cu...
Today I saw a news article about a prominent pastor, Creflo Dollar, who has a global television ministry on top of a 30,000 member church organisation in the United States. The news item depicted his ...
