Life is something God-breathed, something sacred. It's a mystery that no one can explain; but it is a divine gift from the earth and our ancestors. Perhaps that's why we cherish it so much. It really is all we have, when all the shells and facades and influences and experiences ...

Today, the on ides of March, Lancaster Coalition for Peace and Justice (LCPG) sponsored an event known as M15, a mass peace demonstration and rally. It has been five years since the war in Iraq began. Since that time, nearly 4,000 United States soldiers and hundreds of ...

Nate makes a truly honest plea in So It's Come To This... I hate to say, its becoming harder to care. Its becoming harder to care about injustice when I have found increasingly that injustice is the norm. So 12 families just lost their sons and daughters. Big deal. So 12 ...

Jim Wallis recently issued a call for the signing of a petition that would commemorate the upcoming five year anniversary of the Iraq invasion. We all share in responsibility for a war that has been waged in our names and with our tax dollars. The fact that fewer U.S. soldiers have ...

I wasn't going to buy Jesus for President right away even though Shane's first book changed my life. But when I was at Berean the other day the book totally jumped out at me. People, this book is beautiful! There is no other way to describe it. I am blown away by ...

Note: This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Read Part 1. Assuming that peace is only a method toward establishing equity and justice, as suggested in an earlier post, the question is begged, "Is violence ever an acceptable method towards this same idealistic end goal?" Historically Christendom has long moved past ...

Note: This is part 1 of a 3 part series. Read Part 2. The year was 1856. The sun beat down on the cotton fields and the dark backs of dozens of African Americans bent in manual labor on a plantation in Alabama. An overweight white man sitting in the shade ...

To go "absent without official leave" from the blogosphere may be necessary for a period sometimes. So...I might be back again. Thanks for all of you who touched my life in the small ways by asking how I was doing or just letting me know you were there for me as ...

"Silence can say more than a thousand words", proclaims the website of OneDayBlogSilence.com. On April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor of the victims at Virginia Tech. More then 30 died at the US college massacre.   But it´s not only about them. Many bloggers have ...