Perceptions of Divorce on a College Campus

This video hits close to home for me because this morning I have been talking on the phone with a husband (who is a dear friend of mine from the past) and his wife who told him last Sunday she had an affair. This information is very relevant and no longer deserves the place of [...]

Will a Shortening Attention Span Affect Our Memory?

How many things are you bombarded with on a daily basis? I marvel when I spend time with our preaching minister who tells stories from his childhood from several decades ago. He remembers the names, situations, nicknames, locations, and just about any other detail you can remember. Besides the fact that he has an amazing [...]

Power of Positive Parenting - Understanding Functional Behavior

The last post talked about the two sides of discipline. This next post is about how the things children and even adults do almost always make sense on some level. When you examine the majority of psychosis or dysfunctional behavior in children and adults you normally find something that used to “work for them” on [...]

The Power of Positive Parenting - Definition of Discipline

I am going to be referring back to principles contained in this post in upcoming posts so it is important that if you are going to follow this series on parenting that you understand the concepts contained here.
When we think of discipline we often think of punishment for doing the wrong thing. That is only [...]

The Psychology of Modesty

When I was in graduate school at the University of Florida I did a lot of work with children who had disruptive and extreme attention seeking behaviors. One thing we taught parents is that when children try to get their parents’ attention through negative attention seeking behaviors they are to be ignored. Once the child [...]

Oprah Show and Pornography

Yesterday’s Oprah show had the results of an online poll from Oprah.com showed that 50% of respondents felt pornography had affected their sex lives and 72% said the effect had been a positive one. Something tells me the sample of respondents was not very representative of the general population. The show was pushing to re-label [...]

Looking Back on September 11, 2001

For those of us who are less than 70 years old New York City on September 11, 2001 is our Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941. It is a moment in time that shaped our thinking, rent our hearts, and reminded us all of what was really important.
I was a graduate student at the University [...]

Odds and Ends - Cleaning Out the Old Draft Bin

I have a bunch of drafts sitting waiting to be finished so I thought I would toss out a line or two on some of them and go ahead and delete them. So here goes…

The Resurrection Body: Does 1 John 3:2 mean we will have the same kind of post resurrection body Christ did or [...]

Antidepressants - Most Prescribed Drug in the U.S.

The CDC has announced that in 2005 the most prescribed drug in the United States was antidepressants with a whopping 118 million prescriptions written. While I have personally seen these drugs be a life saver in some instances, in many instances they are over prescribed and abused.
In Henri Nouwen’s book Reaching Out he makes the [...]

Psychology of Blogrolls

Blogrolls - most blogs have them but how do they reflect on us as people? Let’s start with a couple of questions.
1 - Do you predominantly post on blogs that have blogrolls? If yes,

Do you ever go back to those blogs to check and see if they added you to their blogroll due to your [...]