Month: October 2014

  • HOW DO WE DEAL WITH THE MENTALLY ILL?

       Our present mental health policies and practice are both complicated, confusing, and too often tragically consequential. For those who have suffered with mental illness and those who must take medication to keep it under some kind of control, and retain stability, there are many challenges.  For those who live with a family member who…

  • ABOUT BEING UNFRIENDLY

    Proverbs 18: An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends…  That’s the NIV, and the ESV says….”Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.”  I don’t think this is a condemnation of people who think of themselves as introverts, only those who use their introversion as an excuse to be selfish.…

  • RECONCILIATION OR JUSTICE?

      Why do we have to have a choice between reconciliation and justice?  Actually, in my opinion, you can’t have reconciliation in its truest sense without justice.     There can be different levels of justice, and thus different levels of reconciliation.  Starting with the lowest and worse would simply be silence and acquiescence.  This would be…