BP32 Historians say that events don’t start world wars. Driven by anger and hate, people start wars. Jesus ties anger to murder: “You have heard that it was said to…

BP31--a supplement to BP30 The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ~ Mark Twain You’ve heard…

BP30 There are two types of anxiety, type A and type B. Type A is plain old Average Anxiety (AA). Type B is Break-Through Anxiety (BTA). It’s called BTA because…

BP29B The Anderson family appears to identify with the Christian faith. I say identify with faith instead of saying they aren’t believers because it’s never my place to judge whether…

BP28 Some believers cling to Jesus like flotsam after a shipwreck. Others chat with Jesus on a Scandinavian luxury cruise ship next to the pool. Some Christians appear to need…

BP27 I spoke at his funeral. My father’s funeral. I didn’t say anything about how good a dad he was to me because he wasn’t. Not in all thirty-four years…

BP26 Departing from the usual format, today’s post for Designer Therapy for Life will follow a young woman on a most unusual Advent journey . . . In spite of…

BP25 Did you ever have a favorite blankie or stuffed animal as a small child that you took to bed with you every night? How about a pacifier? I remember…

BP24 Emily and Samuel were both unhappy with their true self—the person they were on the inside—so they engineered a different identity, a false self. Emily experienced an identity accommodation…

BP23 Humans are hungry. We are hungry for food, for meaning in life, for emotional closeness and love, for sexual intimacy (as opposed to lust). We hunger to belong, to…