Mike ShreveInteresting, spiritual things began for me with the ‘Three Bears’ version of Christianity at a private boarding school operated by a mainline Christian denomination. With about four hundred and fifty other students, for ten years, I had to attend...
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri representative serving his ninth term, once served as a United Methodist pastor (though credentials from a religious organization do not make someone a pastor—only the true calling of God can impart that...
Many religious groups have doctrines forecasting the “Second Coming of Christ” or the arrival in this world of a Messiah-like individual. Biblically, the more correct term is Messiah (from the Hebrew Mashiyach, which means the “Anointed One,” Daniel...
Seeds to Redemption, Eternal Life After Yoga I attended my first yoga class in 2012. To my delight, it lessened the chronic back pain I was having because of scoliosis. In fact, the pain became so unmanageable, that I had made an appointment with a...
THE BEGINNING OF MY SEARCH At one time or another, we reach important turning points in our hearts and lives when we ponder, in small ways or big ways, thoughts about our future. We all ask questions like, “What is truth?”, “What is the meaning of...