Like a bad religion - the only one I knowI never had no shelter never had a place to goA bad religion - my life is make-believeBad religionI need someone to talk to - someone to understandI need a friend to lend a helping handI'm gonna pull myself together - shed this battered ...
He had one successful book – his tell-all memoir about leaving the Mormon Church when he came out as gay – but everything in the 15 years since then has fallen flat. He’s not even sure he can be a writer anymore. Then his agent lands him a cushy job: the Hollywood star Roland...
This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. John 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. John ...
4. Death is the ultimate surrender.The death of Jesus transformed the world. This tells us that death can be a powerful experience; it can actually wield power and bring about change. But how? The death of Jesus was the ultimate gift of self. Jesus did not hold back anything ...
Rather, the dignity of Dad’s death was evident in the rich prayer life he maintained until his dying breath, and the unwavering hope he possessed in “the free gift of God”: “eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (again, Rom. 6:23). When I found Dad’s Bible in his apartment...
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”— A.A. Milne “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”— Fyodor DostoyevskyDep...
I had recently gone part-time as a medicolegal death investigator with the intention of giving my fractured psyche a chance to knit itself back together after over a decade of constant trauma. I figured if I only worked part-time, maybe I could use the rest of the time to process, ...
He didn’t say this of his own accord, but as Chief Priest that year he unwittingly prophesied that Jesus was about to die sacrificially for the nation, and not only for the nation but so that all God’s exile-scattered children might be gathered together into one people. 53-54 From...
and hold you like I did before this time of quarantine? And when we look back upon these days, we’ll remember how it felt to say, “We’re all in this together. We’ll make it through together.” All of David’s work was grounded in a deep faith, a questioning mind, and a co...
137. “No more let life divide what death can join together.”― Percy Bysshe Shelley 138. “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”― John Donne ...