☺ Please donate! ☺ In a comment on a WaPo article about “Prosperity Gospel” televangelists, someone said: Jesus taught us to think of...

Doing background research for some forthcoming posts, I had to track down George Ritchie’s quotation of the proverb, “Birds of a feather...

Friday, October 14 At the homeless shelter where I stay, bunks are supposed to be assigned daily strictly on a first-come, first-served...

Don’t torture your conscience over whether or not, on any given occasion, to give or not give to a panhandler. Go with your gut. Your...

(Originally posted 10/11/13. Transcribed from an e-mail I sent my mother 24 August 2010.) Jesus said any number of things in large part,...

Many people are skeptical about prayer. How many have prayed fervently, day and night, for an ailing loved one, and never obtained the...

(Below appears a tract I passed out with the Hallowe’en candy in 2007. “ Chaos overwhelms the poor ” describes that neighborhood. ...

(Originally posted 05/14/15. Reblogged 09/12/24.)) Bookmarks: Poor children have smaller brains ———— ♦ ———— New brain science shows poor...

(Originally posted 08/06/14 . Reblogged 08/15/24.) Some weeks ago, I stood in line awaiting check-in at the shelter. This place charges...

These words will scandalize some readers. Sometime in the future, I will no doubt discuss the same ideas in a more well-ordered way. But...

A new thread at Messiah Truth . This is most emphatically not Jewish teaching. I expect it correctly to be condemned as not-Jewish. I...

The dentist prescribed ibuprofen 800s and, for me to take at night if the toothache became severe, Hydrocodon-Acetaminoph 7.5-325. This...

Is This Stone the Clue to Why Jesus Was Killed? Here is the latest in a flurry of rather silly articles extolling the supposed...

Ambrose and Olga Worrall took the doctrine of “ Don’t come uninvited ” to extreme lengths — or so I thought. A key story involves their...

Bookmarks: 1. Trash day 2. Prayer for enemies 3. Dealing with haters 4. Prayer in spirit 5. Following guidance Related: Some more prayer...

Bookmarks: Poor children have smaller brains ———— ♦ ———— New brain science shows poor kids have smaller brains than affluent kids I...

A post from a thread at Messiah Truth where we were discussing “Embracing what is.” This morning as I waited outside for library to...

From a 03/31/08 e-mail to my supervisor at the dollar store. This was a young man who had never had a paying job before, and thus...

Here is my first audition file. The sound quality and performance aren’t the best, but I’ve chosen to post it anyway given the weight of...

John 9:1-3: 1As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,...