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For weeks, the ad above (specific contact information removed) has appeared in major newspapers. Saying that “ADDICTION IS NOT YOUR FAULT” is dangerous because it connotes an underlying assumption. If you’re an addict, don’t blame yourself. I agree that shaming people won’t necessarily help them overcome an addiction. They’re already shamed by their dependency and heaping more guilt on them won’t help. But completely letting them off the hook […]

Inner Healing Isn’t Deliverance! (Note: By inner healing we refer to a spiritually therapeutic approach to improving mental and emotional health by prayer, scriptural guidance, recovered memories, and empathetic listening.) If you’re involved in an effective ministry of inner healing, keep on bringing a measure of relief for emotionally wounded people. Help them face past

Past Christmases have seen battles over Baby Jesus crèches in the public square and questions about whether to say, “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays.” But who could have predicted that a 1940’s music classic, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” would stir controversy? People who usually could care less about public morality have suddenly become overheated about

Next to a Christmas tree, near a menorah, and not far from a baby Jesus crèche, is a symbol of Satanism. And it’s in the rotunda of the Illinois statehouse, invoking a satanic merry Christmas this year. The sculpture, called “Snaketivity,” depicts a snake around a woman’s hand holding an apple. As in the photo above, a plaque features

Last Halloween I wrote a blog entitled “Halloween Hangover,” with the photo of a nearby house. It was decked out with symbols of death and the occult. For Christmas, this same yard is filled with toy soldiers, snowmen, and Santa. No creche. No Christ in Christmas. Toy soldiers and candy canes aren’t demonic, but the

Thanksgiving week, Thomas Bruce, of Imperial, Missouri, walked into a St. Louis-area Catholic religious supply store, and at gunpoint, ordered three women into a back room. Once there, he forced them to strip nude and perform sex acts upon him. Two of the women complied. A third refused, and Bruce shot her dead. Bruce has