What’s in a Name?  A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

What’s in a Name?  A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

“A substitute teacher in Utah asked her fifth grade students for what they were thankful during the Thanksgiving season.  One boy said he was thankful that he was going to be adopted by his two dads.  The teacher reportedly responded, “Why would you be thankful for that?” and proceeded to lecture the class on homosexuality being “sinful.”  Eventually, she was escorted out of the building by the principal who said, “There’s the door.  Keep walking.”

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Life, Death, Pain and Suffering

Life, Death, Pain and Suffering

“If you have not suffered, you simply have not lived long enough,” my friend, Bill, once remarked.  He merely echoed Jesus’ admonition in John 16:33, “In the world you will have tribulation…” Suffering and pain are inevitable and so ugly that we instinctively wince and are repulsed even by the very thought.  People have responded to the problem of pain in a limited number of ways.

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