I am teaching a class on emotionally healthy relationships this winter. Prepping for one of my classes, I remembered an assessment I took about 5 years ago by Jim Van Yperen, a church-conflict specialist. It’s […]

Galatians 5:16-17 in the New Living Translation perfectly describes the struggle we face every single day: 16 So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature […]

After Reading Ruth Everhart’s 2016 “Ruined,” the powerful, painful memoir of her rape at gunpoint when she was a college student, I was touched by her courage to go on with her life. That compelled […]

More than 4 decades of marriage have taught me 8 “secrets” that might just give you a leg up this Valentine’s Day. Of course, you’ll have to do your own hard work, just like I […]

Thousands have gathered in recent days to remember one of the great horrors of history and the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. When I was a sophomore in high school I read […]

Trying to read someone’s mind does not work. I’ve tried it many times without much success. Talking face to face with someone and clarifying expectations does work most of the time, but it’s work and […]

I talked with a pastor recently who said of one of his parishioners, “I assume he doesn’t like me.” “Wow,” I said, “Can you read his mind?” “Well, I can tell by how he acts […]