When was the last time you went to the doctor? Was it when your mom forced you? Or when you needed a physical to play sports in high school? Recent studies have shown that children and older adults are the most likely to have a scheduled doctor appointment. Adolescents and young adults from age 16-35 […]
If you are a Christian, and you are not a member of a Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox church, then you fall into the tradition of Protestantism. When Martin Luther broke away from the Roman Catholic church in the early 16th century, he started a fracturing in Western Christendom that persists to this day, with […]
For a number of years, I had a routine: on Fridays after school, I would walk to the Starbucks near my house and get coffee. Now, only several years later, I try to avoid going to Starbucks whenever possible, mainly because I discovered local independent coffee shops. Starbucks used to make sense as an option […]
Growing up I attended “non-denominational” evangelical Protestant Christian churches, and one thing that I was constantly told was, “Read your Bible!” Bible reading was, rightly, presented as an extraordinarily important spiritual discipline and integral to spiritual growth. Yet Bible reading was treated like it was one of the easiest activities in the world. I was […]
