Greetings, Communication is an important aspect of our lives. We communicate with God and with each other. We don’t live in a vacuum and our relationships require communication in order to build understanding, trust and love of neighbor. We all … [Read more...]

Greetings, This week the American vice-president once again attempted to reignite the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. His offer to the Palestinians of a settlement freeze and a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem in exchange … [Read more...]

Greetings, God revealed to Daniel the meaning of the image that Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar had seen in a dream. It became clear that the king was ruler over the greatest of all four revealed kingdoms. The head of gold represented … [Read more...]

Greetings, Many biblical statements are quite familiar to us since we have read or heard them many times over the years. But do we ever pause to ask ourselves – have I really embraced what this statement means? Familiarity is said to breed … [Read more...]

Greetings, From time to time events cause us to deeply consider the reality of our own mortality. One of those times inevitably is when we experience the death of someone close to us. This is particularly true in a situation that involves a … [Read more...]

Greetings, Thessalonica was a commercially important city in Greece. It was named after the step-sister of Alexander the Great. It was a free city ruled by a council of its own citizens—a perk they received by being on the winning side during the … [Read more...]

Greetings All, Today there is a lot of talk about “going green.” Ideally it means that we pollute the environment less -- the goal being, taking better care of our air, water, soil and natural resources. Less than ideal is the fact that the … [Read more...]

Greetings, Following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 the Chicago Atomic Scientists, a group of researchers who had been involved in the development of these bombs, began publishing a newsletter which later became the Bulletin of the … [Read more...]

Greetings, We live in a world today, which is simultaneously fraught with peril, filled with opulence, devoid of spirituality and held captive by region-encompassing false religiosity. While oil princes in the Middle East drive Rolls Royces and … [Read more...]

Greetings, Recently I viewed online some photographs of severe flooding in the area where I grew up. I still have cousins living in the area and could picture their situation clearly in my mind. Seeing familiar locations from my childhood in the … [Read more...]