“Lord, You destroy the hope of man!” (Job)

(Part IV in a four-part series on depression) I heard recently that the FDA has approved a new depressant (not "anti") for those who are incessantly, annoyingly cheerful. It has been tested successfully on hundreds of real estate agents and kindergarten...

WHY? (Part III in a four-part series on depression)

Have you ever had the sensation that you were drowning? Do you actually have to work at just breathing? Is it physical or emotional? If your answer is ‘Yes, both,’ perhaps you are intimately acquainted with depression. You can’t really explain it to anyone else, can...

A Diary of Chiapas

(Oct-Nov ’08) Almost the first thing I said to Eufemio Bonafaz Lopez, after six hours in the air and/or airports and three hours up a winding road to Simojovel, Chiapas, was, “My Spanish is limited. One day I hope to preach in Spanish, but I’m not...