Looking back, I find it remarkable that I believed in God to begin with. Autism is a condition that does not allow for many gray areas in one’s worldview.
Health and Wellness
Posted inPolitics & Society
Why does the United States spend so much on health care for such poor quality?
Medical science must answer its highest calling: the promotion of the health and well-being of all humankind.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Hospice chaplain Kerry Egan reflects on the stories and grace she has encountered in her work.
A hospice chaplain learns that people carry burdensome secrets and regrets, and the prospect of dying makes them want to unload them.
Posted inFaith
Is anxiety sinful?
For people of faith, it can be hard not to view worry as some kind of personal failure.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
There’s a heroin epidemic in this country and faith communities need to be talking more about it.
In the last 10 years, the number of heroin-related overdoses nearly quadruple.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
The statistics are wrong. Accidental shootings are killing children more than we think.
Deaths and injuries spike for children under 5, with 3-year-olds the most common shooters and victims.
Posted inOf Other Things, Politics & Society
Our nation’s greatest contribution to religious thought is Alcoholics Anonymous
The genius of A.A. is that it is a proto-religious fellowship in which people in desperate need somehow rediscover the fire of a foundational miracle.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
A Christian Response to Alzheimer’s
How can one prepare to lose the self-consciousness that makes self-offering worship possible?