BP 243 “Another of the disciples said to him, ‘Lord, let me first go and bury my father.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own…
BP 242 Are we alone in the universe? Are we humans the only creatures who exist with the intellect and language and ability to “know” one another? Are we bereft…
BP 241 [This post is a bit of a reprise on an earlier post that includes quotes from Irvin D. Yalom but with added material] “While there is no solution…
BP 240 “Can you be a Christian who struggles with homosexual desire and struggles faithfully in the Lord? Absolutely. And if people are being honest, everybody is struggling with something…
BP 239 “Sometimes, the most profound things are expressed in silence” ~ Louise Erdrich “Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart” ~ Phyllis McGinley “Silence and isolation…
BP 238 In the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare writes the famous and familiar words, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name…
BP 237 “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our…
BP 236 In 1986, a reactor at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, exploded. Since the reactor had no containment structure—a dome constructed of steel and concrete to prevent…
BP 235 One of my daughters and her family of six traveled from far away to celebrate an unforgettable early Christmas with us. Now they are gone. (Maybe sometimes it…
BP 234 Anxiety, not peace, is normal in this fallen world. Tragically, it is a “new normal” that is far worse than the original normal. Why is anxiety so interwoven…