Addicted to Oil, Addicted to Sugar
There are some striking parallels between the gas crisis and the obesity crisis. Clamoring for cheaper gas and offshore drilling is the equivalent of looking for a way to keep eating crap and not get fat.
When I was 27 years old, four words changed my life: "Positive for a deleterious mutation." Translated into English, that meant I was carrying the mutated gene that triggered the breast and ovarian cancer suffered by my mother, grandmother and great aunts.
There are some striking parallels between the gas crisis and the obesity crisis. Clamoring for cheaper gas and offshore drilling is the equivalent of looking for a way to keep eating crap and not get fat.
This reluctance to engage socially and politically with the "other side" isn't because people don't want to talk about the issues: it's because they don't want to be embarrassed.
With the DNC last week and the RNC this week, we've been focused on the big issues facing our country. Looking at these big issues through the eyes of children might change our perspective on the American Dream.
There is renewed power through prayer and fasting, because ultimately prayer and fasting humbles us.
On matters of women in the church, it's time to take the lead from women themselves. To date, the lore and history of organized religion has belonged to men.
There are days when being a mom isn't easy and certainly isn't glamorous. I don't love every single minute of every single day. But through my own experiences, I have come to realize that motherhood in the 21st century isn't black or white...red or blue.
Why isn't anyone asking about the parenting of Todd Palin? Couldn't he put the kids to bed and help them with their homework?
Bazzel Baz is a former CIA agent who takes on the most impossible cases. And he doesn't charge the heartsick family of the missing a penny.
Isn't there a strong parallel between other people dictating my right to reproduce and other people dictating what I should look like?
What do Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Fred Couples and Davis Love III have in common, besides the ability to hit a golf ball farther than most mortal men?
Learning about sex offenders in one's midst brings anxiety, mixed with uncertainty. But the alarm is eclipsed by another question: how accurate are the search results?
Heading into my senior year of high school, I'm entering it with a much clearer head because I know that somewhere in my four years, I did something constructive.