by Lois Mitchell | Jun 5, 2017 | Opinion
Christians often don’t talk much about climate change and global warming, but when they do, there are some pretty divergent views. There are those who staunchly argue that the hype around climate change is just fear-mongering based on economic or political...
by Lois Mitchell | Jul 16, 2014 | Opinion
Living in a climate of fiscal uncertainty—which would be a very nonchalant way of describing the current global economic reality—has produced a spirit of reckless fatalism. We may watch the ticker tape on our TV screen show rises and falls in stock prices with...
by Lois Mitchell | Dec 5, 2013 | Opinion
I’m fascinated by pilgrimage. For me, the term connotes earnestness, persistence, solitude, inspiration and a touch of holiness. It’s rising above the mundane, shedding the constraints of banality. Pilgrimage is both dogged pursuit and quiet surrender....
by Lois Mitchell | Nov 22, 2013 | Opinion
In his book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” holocaust survivor Victor Frankl said, “On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were...
by Lois Mitchell | Oct 30, 2013 | Opinion
The thought of child labor makes me cringe. I envision children spending hours every day in repetitive (and sometimes dangerous) work – forced to earn an income to help the family survive, or, more horrifically, because they have no family and are working for their...
