Editorials

When you're a healer —and anyone can be!—people around you feel something special. They can't always put it into words, but they just know you want to help them any way you can.

A while ago I visited friends in South America. There was serious discontent with the government, and my friends explained that over the past ten years they had had six presidents.

Simply because we know what happened, Easter is much different for you and me than it was for Mary Magdalene and Jesus' other followers. Two days, as we measure them (three as they counted), after Jesus' crucifixion, Mary Magdalene went to his tomb.

IN A WORLD that is struggling against terrorism, poverty, sickness, instability, and a host of other problems, the importance of women's rights is not always obvious to some. "Isn't this something that could wait until later?" is a question, and one that is easy to understand.

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO a dear friend told me that she felt sorry for people who asked God to heal them, when they could just go to a doctor and get relief. She didn't understand why people had more faith in God than in medicine to help them.

Christ Jesus might not seem like the most obvious model for leadership. But in examining his life, it’s clear he embodied all the qualities of a great leader: selfless service, moral clarity, courage, and humility.

From the very start , Christianity has challenged what the world calls impossibilities. "With God nothing shall be impossible," said the angel Gabriel to the astonished young Mary, after he told her she would bear a child, Jesus, who would rule forever on earth.

The path alongside Strawberry Creek starts out by ambling gently upward through a colorful patchwork quilt of wildflowers. Indian paint-brush, goldenrod, azaleas, and lupine blanket the mountainside bordering the creek, in the San Bernardino National Forest of California.

Let's suppose, somewhere in the villages of Galilee, you and I heard Jesus speak. And let's give ourselves the benefit of the doubt—let's assume we would have been the kind of listeners he called "good ground," with whom his words would bear "fruit an hundredfold.

You view the world differently —more expansively and with greater clarity—when you're flying 30,000 feet or so above the earth's surface. Walls and borders disappear, time zones telescope, storm clouds turn into a carpet of whiteness, and the world's conflicts seem to dissolve into the curvature of the planet.