Do you believe that things that happened to you are predestined and planned by someone up there?  Or do you believe you can determine your own fate?  Which do you believe in?

Recently I was helping my oldest son with a bit of Algebra, he’s a 7thgrader so the Algebra is pretty basic, basic enough for me to still remember.  We were both getting frustrated because he couldn’t understand how to do the problem and I couldn’t explain it appropriately, or well enough so that he couldunderstand.

Where have all the miracles gone? It seems we were inundated with the stories of all the unearthly things that have been done by the power of god. He can produce rabbits form his hat all day long—we have Jesus rising from the dead and ascending into heaven; he was born of a virgin and

The Los Angeles Times released an interesting poll today which says that 92% of Americans believe in some sort of higher power and that 58% pray daily. The poll confirms the stereotype that religious belief is more prevalent in the Midwest and South as well as highlighting how California differs from the rest of the

Most people tend to be unilateral when it comes to belief.  They like thinking that their belief is what keeps them going in good and bad times.  It is after all, the quintessential expression of human hope.  Well, I’m a cynic and I believe that every coin has two sides.  Just because people choose to ignore

An interesting documentary by Channel 4’s Dispatches on Christian fundamentalists in the UK. Sparked by the debate on the Embryo Bill which has by now passed the British Parliamentary vote. Highly recommended. Offers plenty of behind the scenes footage on the workings of fundamentalist Christian organizations, faith schools and  radical Christian activists. Highlights the

I have nothing to say today.  So I thought I would share with you one of my more favorite poems by one of my favorite poets. i carry your heart with me   i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is

I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.  The wiseman has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.  Ecclesiastes 2: 13, 14. I have seen the burden God has laid on men.  He has

GOD DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES so how can a gay/lesbian person be against God's laws? God created them as he did the heterosexual male and female. I do not ever remember choosing to be a heterosexual female. Gay activity is even mirrored in nature. And in all the years in which I was growing up, I never consciously made the decision to be a heterosexual. In talking with both gays and lesbians, the same is true for them. At no time in growing up did they ever consciously make the decision to be *gay*. They just were.