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The world has watched with interest (and, perhaps, apprehension) as Pope Benedict XVI has undertaken his first excursion to a Muslim nation. The common thought has been that the Vatican had large stakes riding on the visit and that the pope had to tread carefully.
Recently I spent some time with my 92-year old mother. She had just received her latest issue of AARP The Magazine, which contained a very sobering interview with Dr. Robert G. Webster, one of the world's leading virologist and flu experts. Dr. Webster correctly pointed out that the 1918 flu pandemic, which sickened and killed millions around the world, was...
Jesus Christ said in Matthew 6:25: "Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?" If the Savior of all mankind says that, why then, am I always worried about these things? Another house payment; the furnace is getting older; food...
Ever since the first atomic bomb demolished Hiroshima, military thinkers have wrestled with the question of how to fight and win an atomic war. Now with North Korea and possibly other countries going nuclear, the world is becoming a much more dangerous place.
While visiting a dear friend in the hospital, I was waiting in the hallway until the nurses completed a procedure that required privacy.
With mid-term elections drawing near, politics at its "best" has been on display. One of the most heated and passionate races has not been between two people, but between two views on a contentious issue: embryonic stem cell research and what many call "cloning."
The headlines glaringly scream: "Sex Offenders See New Limits for Halloween"; "Plan Ahead and Avoid Halloween Violence"; "Halloween: A Very Dangerous Day for Children"; "Halloween Costumes Cause Pedestrian Accidents"; "Police Warn about Drugged Candy." It's that time of the year again; pumpkins, witches, goblins, black cats, bats and vampires swirl around in the...
An observer of the modern scene recently opined that people today don't have many friends; some have none. In the hectic pace of modern life, it seems that many do not take the time or have the opportunity to develop lasting friendships.
A recent headline in the "Faith and Values" section of a major newspaper asked this question, and it is a very good one. How do you decide which church is teaching and practicing the truth? As Pontius Pilate asked long ago, "What is truth?" Sadly the article, though well written, came to a wrong conclusion and may serve to mislead the readers.
The ability to turn raw materials from out of the ground into manufactured finished goods was, at one time, a great national asset of America and Britain.