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The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us from understanding? W...

The Haunted Mesa

My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-...

Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

Whether it means prizing the value of lessons learned, building games into your creative process, or getting gifts upon certain milestones of achievement, self-derived rewards make a big difference…You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ...

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, quite f...

The Last Song

As the incidence and fear of rape on college campuses have increased, the term rape has been generalized to mean 'misuse; diminish the effects of; steal; defeat': "I just went to the mall and raped my VISA." "My dad phoned this morning and raped my b...

Slang & Sociability: In Group Language Among College Students

If every Christian family in the United States would simply commit to pray and ask God if HE wants to use them to bless a child without a family, well, we'd change the world. If we can get the church to think about adoption not in terms of the desire...

Wait No More: One Family's Amazing Adoption Journey

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matt...

What Is Zen?

Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we don’t understand. In the nineteenth century there was a term, melancholia, which we would now call bipolar depression… but all forms of sadness, unhappiness, maladaptati...

Terence McKenna

Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it's dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say that merely reflecting on this will produce a prof...

Dalai Lama XIV

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.

Guy Laliberte

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Louise Bourgeois

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

Sacred Hunger

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

Vanna White

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

Nikki Sixx

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

Paul Begala

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

Samuel P. Huntington

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

Tyler Perry

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

Mitchell Baker

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Robert Plant