In our day and age, we have become an over-opinionated society that indulges in garnering attention. Many of the things we do and say are merely for effect, and we often fail to really consider the ...

Dan just celebrated his fourth anniversary of sobriety. As we had breakfast a few days ago, he talked about the other three guys who were his roommates at the rehabilitation center. "They all wanted ...

SOME OF JESUS’ lesser-known parables were not addressed to the vast crowds that followed him but were spoken to the chief priests and elders in an attempt to open their hearts, eyes and minds to God’s ...

Jewish law is commonly divided into two groups: laws that govern our relationship with God (bein adam la’Makom) and laws that govern our relationship with our fellow person (bein adam l’chavero). Thus ...

When I was a child, Grandpa and Grandma had a plaque in their dining room that read, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Proverbs 9:10) Fear God? That's right -- respect! God had whole ...

Some people might think that the purification of the temple sounds like an oxymoron, sort of like the task of wetting water. The temple should be the place of purification, not a place needing to be ...

After every mass shooting the anti-gun lobby springs into action. Shouting such idioms as "gun violence" and appropriating blame on the Second Amendment, their emotional rhetoric only furthers the ...

Where has the respect for our Lord gone? I see pictures of a preacher and members of the Cowboy Church wearing cowboy hats. Churches, in an effort to draw new members, are bowing to the casual ...

In his Community Voices article ("We’re losing respect for God," Aug. 11), Tim Stormont tells us that “In the name of civil rights, gender is being split into numerous unscientific divisions to please ...