by Mark Tidsworth | Sep 16, 2015 | Opinion
My first clinical position was in a high management group home for boys ages 8 to 14, a long-term environment, wherein children would stay up to two years. After the first week, I seriously considered quitting. This was the most difficult job I had experienced so far....
by Lina Toth | Sep 16, 2015 | Opinion
Have you noticed how easily Christians talk about God being the source of our happiness? And yet, our reaction to single people in our midst suggests something different. Single believers often encounter an assumption that being single is, by default, less happy than...
by Heath W. Carter | Sep 15, 2015 | Opinion
These are the worst of times for organized labor, which during the post-World War II decades – the heyday of middle class expansion – represented more than one-third of all private sector workers. Today, that number is less than 7 percent. This precipitous...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 15, 2015 | Opinion
Pope Francis addressed recently an ever-present challenge for local church leaders – the disconnect between the academy (seminaries, religion departments, divinity schools) and the local church. The theme of a papal address at the Pontifical Catholic University...
by Joe LaGuardia | Sep 15, 2015 | Opinion
I spotted a painting of the Last Supper of Christ several years ago when throwing away trash in our apartment complex’s dumpster. Unlike the Da Vinci paintings I had seen before, this one was different: All of the disciples and Jesus were people of color. I took...
by Nick Lear | Sep 14, 2015 | Opinion
A few years ago I had a series of Botox injections in my forehead. It was not for cosmetic purposes, but rather to try to alleviate the pain I was experiencing from a chronic migraine headache. Sadly, it did not work. It did make a significant difference to the lines...
