Pick up any well-known fairy tale and you’re likely to read this concluding line: “…and they lived happily ever after.” Usually the line refers to a beautiful maiden and her handsome prince who has saved her from some unenviable life. In a life filled with inconveniences and setbacks, it’s no wonder that many of us […]
HOW DO HABITS BECOME ADDICTIONS?
What is it that you just can’t live without? For Christians, the answer is simple: God. We literally cannot live without God. Without God there would be huge, gaping holes in our lives. He is the one who ultimately meets our need for love, safety and comfort. Why, then, do so many Christians suffer from […]
COMMUNISM, CASTLES AND LEPER COLONIES
“You have to forgive us,” said Adrian, “Romanians don’t quite know who they are. He went on to point out that for centuries his country had been controlled by other people. Most recently this small fish-shaped country in Eastern Europe had been under communist rule. It was only twenty years ago, in 1989, that a […]
“ALTARING” THE BODY
Theresa Peters’s parents told her that she didn’t need any more holes in her head. With two earrings in each earlobe and her cartilage pierced, she had already exceeded the typical teenage freedom to alter her body. So when Theresa, now 23, who hails from Greendale, Wisconsin, came home with a new stud on her […]
POEM: RED ROOTS
Red Roots Tree painted with red roots bleeding into deep browns rooted in blood. Can red symbolize anything besides blood? Your blood is in my roots. But water, and not blood, came from your side. A broken body mine is too. Red roots painted into the ground, up the trunk. Climbing the pole, hugging it, […]