Mike ShreveCongressman 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...
“The accident report read, ‘Cause: Act of God.’” I was in a train station in Japan, making a pilgrimage to the head Buddhist temple, Daisekiji, at the foot of Mount Fuji, when a young man — in perfect English — warned: “Beware the winds of...
Buddha’s “Four Noble Truths” state that life is full of suffering and the cause of suffering is desire. So, the way to overcome suffering is to overcome desire. Is that true? Or is there a biblical view that solves the problem of suffering in a more...