How can I love my neighbor when the Internet brings mean-spirited and vicious comments right into my dining room? Insults mount on any opinion posted on-line. Recently, I was called “delusional” by a stranger, a nobody to me. I wrote back, “We can disagree, but it’s not necessary to insult each other’s intelligence.” Yet I […]
(Photo above is of Maureen Hancock, spiritual medium) Life goes black when a child dies. Gail and Jeremy Hunter, ages 64, lost two adult children in 2006 and 2009 accidents. Many would say their Anjuli and Drew live on in spirit. Of this, their parents are certain because of messages through a medium. “My husband […]
It’s not death. It’s not dismemberment, but it was black despair when I lost my website. No access, lost files. I thought that email from my provider was an ad, not a renewal notice! Now my website went poof! No crimes involved, just felony stupidity on my part. Being a technosaur, I believed the guy […]
After the killing of 49 innocent people dancing in an Orlando nightclub, my heart shrunk with despair. The familiarity of mass murder is paralyzing because hate cannot be legislated away when such a killer believes his murderous rage is righteous. How do I battle my own gut reaction toward retaliation? The Washington Post reported 29-year-old […]
Sister Peggy Cummins, age 67, runs a safe house for survivors of sex trafficking. Honoring her vow to chastity for 48 years, she had no experience with either sex or trafficking when she began this work in 2011. Yet the horror and debasement did not shock her. Instead she was jolted by a different realization. […]