by Ray Furr | Apr 4, 2002 | News
People driving around with bumper stickers that read, “Aim higher boys, them rag heads is ridin’ camels,” may be conveying more than a warped sense of humor. They may be carrying around toxic anger. “Anger is an emotion and as such it is...
by Ray Furr | Mar 25, 2002 | News
Besides the new Russian and Baltic states, New Zealand and Australia have some of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to World Health Organization data. The highest male suicides rates were found in the war-torn countries of Lithuania, the Russian...
by Ray Furr | Mar 19, 2002 | News
When 19-year-old Jenna Bush was arrested, she was accused of possessing a “substance resembling beer,” according to undercover police officers. These “substances” or “alcopops” are the alcoholic beverages of choice for underage...
by Ray Furr | Mar 1, 2002 | News
At 4:45 a.m. the clock rings in Littleton, Colo., just south of Denver. Bob and Jan Burnside are up and ready to roll because their task is urgent. For 10 years, the Mission Hills Church, a Swedish Baptist Congregation, has been actively involved in suicide...
by Ray Furr | Feb 6, 2002 | Opinion
They’ll know we are Christians by our love and by our bulging waistlines. And the larger the middle, the more likely you are to be pastor of a church. Obesity is a growing epidemic claiming some 300,000 lives each year. Defined as being overweight by 20 percent...
