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Religious and spiritual people are healthier than people who are not, seems to be what the medical research is saying these days.

Are you psychotic if you post ‘selfies’? This may be a possibility according to a recent study coming out of The Ohio State University.

in the pain and the disorientation of this time, I’d like to wonder with you about six Gospel principles – six principles about Jesus and, therefore, six principles about being Jesus’ disciples – that might help us to respond both to Charlie Hebdo and to the terrorists who murdered it staff.

As I sit at my keyboard, just days after the massacre at the Paris newspaper Charlie Hebdo, I remember the great advice given by my first editor, the late John Dennis of the long-gone twice-weekly Southeast News in Downey, Calif.: “Never write an editorial with boxing gloves on.”

I must confess that I am perplexed and often frustrated by the insistence of many on the left side of the political spectrum who demand that we all should own the blame for the actions of the Islamic Jihadists across the globe.

“Stay Gold” by Swedish Folk Duo, First Aid Kit is a contemplative song that could be the soundtrack to the prophet Isaiah and Solomon’s prophetic ponderings on the human experience

On one level it makes sense that someone who has a life threatening condition, cancer or a strong sense of their own mortality would think about what is next and might turn to pray or their spiritual tradition.