by Joe LaGuardia | Aug 13, 2014 | Opinion
In the movie, “The Words,” actor Bradley Cooper plays a struggling writer named Rory Jansen. Like so many amateur authors, Rory is unable to get published, much less noticed. While on a honeymoon in France, he stumbles upon an old, unpublished manuscript...
by Joe LaGuardia | Aug 7, 2014 | Opinion
July 28 marked the centennial anniversary of World War I’s beginning. For many, it was the war to end all wars; for powerful clergy that shaped religious and political life in America at the time, it was the very war by which God would usher in his kingdom. In...
by Joe LaGuardia | Jun 27, 2014 | Opinion
It pays to be spiritual. That is the conclusion reached by researchers Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath. In an opinion piece in the Sunday Review of the New York Times, they outlined factors that benefit or hinder employee productivity. At first glance, the numbers...
by Joe LaGuardia | Jun 12, 2014 | Opinion
Churches across the world recently celebrated Pentecost, affirming God’s salvation and call “upon all flesh,” a calling whereby “your sons and your daughters shall prophesy … even upon my slaves, both men and women” (see Acts 2:17,18)....
by Joe LaGuardia | Jun 5, 2014 | Opinion
When Jesus told his disciples in the gospel of John that he was the “bread of life,” it meant that he would nourish people physically and spiritually. Jesus used food and fellowship to fill the empty stomachs of the poor around him, even those individuals...
