The Healing Power of Aloe Vera

A little over a decade ago, products began to spring up on grocers’ shelves advertising, “Now includes aloe vera”. It became a kind of “branding shorthand” to tell the consumer that this product would be more gentle on the skin; some may have even thought that it...

The Health Benefits of Gratitude

The German theologian, Meister Eckhart, once said, “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’, that would suffice.” Dr. John Demartini has said that the most powerful prayer is not a prayer of “I need a change in…” but a prayer of “thankfulness...

Online Infidelity

From Guest Contributor, Dr. Linda Mintle At 42, Tara is married but bored. She regularly engages in on-line dating as a way to escape her mundane life. In the past year, she has dated 20 men. She secretly meets them a few times a week and enjoys the time they spend...

Cops in the Cornfield

Back in high school, there was a certain rite of passage that kids in my neck of the woods seemed to cherish. They would have loud, obnoxious, alcohol-fueled parties, and then they would run into the nearby cornfields to hide when the cops showed up to bust the party....

The Journal

I was sleeping soundly and was very cozy in my bed one bright sunny morning in April when I was awakened by a still small voice.  “No God, not today”, I responded.  I had just barely started the journey of writing a book.  It was a book I felt like God...