Big Brother’s Watching. . . Is there a double standard on who he can watch?

In the Friday December 16th edition of the New York Times, it was revealed to the American masses that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on the international calls of individuals who have been positively linked to Al Qaeda. The Times called this mission a “major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices” and [...]

Home and Family

It’s a beautifully calm and cool evening that’s just cloudy enough that you can’t fully see the moon or the stars. The yard is covered with crisp leaves of all shapes and colors that crunch under my feet as I walk my dog in the dark. I walk into the house to hear my mom [...]

Femininity

A few months ago a guy said to me, “You know, Angela, you don’t have a princess complex like a lot of women I know. My assistant has a princess complex and she thinks the whole world has to revolve around her. She feigns weakness just to get attention and expects all of us to [...]

Standing out

I can’t describe the thoughts in my head when I read the writings of those who are obviously much passed my level of intellect. I want to read and learn everything they have to say. And I am reminded that my mind is just nary a speck on the blip of the intelligence radar. I [...]

Faith Alone?

Sending leads to preaching. Preaching leads to hearing. Hearing leads to believing. Believing leads to calling on the name of the Lord. Notice that believing is not the climax. Even the great Protestan tReformers who taught us the principle of sola fide (“Faith Alone”) also preached that intellectual assent alone does not bring salvation. There [...]

Life: Through the words of the wise

To invoke an analogy, consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film canot be seen before its last sequence is shown. -Viktor E. Frankl I hear them saying you’ll never change things/ And no [...]

Gotta be more than this provential life.

Sometimes I find myself feeling pretty defeated as a Christian since I typically seem to forget that my life has a purpose that is beyond my circumstances. It is so easy for us as Christians to get caught up in the work that we are doing at the moment, whether or not that work serves [...]

Reflection Paper for Colloquium

Reflections on Getting Lost As I was reading the speech by the professor from Millsaps I couldn’t help but smile and think about the times when I was the student in the audience. When I graduated from high school the administration boasted of how great our class was: how much we had done, how smart [...]

Thoughts on the Hurrican

There is an eery sense of peace in the air tonight. The temperature was mild and the wind held a hint of chill and of fall. The peace, I discovered, lies in the beauty of the ugly. The sky was a dark and dreary shade of gray and storm blue and for many there is [...]

Mark 10: 17-22

In this passage, Christ commands the rich young man to give up all that he has as the price to follow Christ. This young man had lived a life of moral perfection as he had been taught that it meant. Christ challenges his spiritual zeitgeist and being (doing) by trying to replace it with one [...]