Warning: This article discusses fictional portrayals and real incidents of sexual assault, abusive relationships, and domestic violence. Last week Annette and I watched the movie “Compliance,” a controversial and disturbing 2012 American thriller written and directed by Craig Zobel. The…
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Strip Search Prank Calls, Domestic Violence: Evil Loves Deception
Tagged with: abusive relationships, authority, compliance, Craig Zobel, deception, domestic violence, evil, falsity, Louise Ogborn, prank calls, sex, Stanley Milgram, strip search, violence
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Popular Culture
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Popular Culture
What does Jesus Mean when He Says we Must be Born Again?
How Can I Be Reborn? “No one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.” What the heck does that mean? People who ask you, “Have you been born again?” think that they’ve got it all figured out…
Tagged with: born again, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, Jesus Christ, Nicodemus, reformation, regeneration, repentance, self help, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
If God is Love, Why all the Pain and Suffering?
How could a loving God allow so much evil? All it takes is a glance at the top stories in the daily news to show us that there is an awful lot of death, destruction, pain, and suffering in our…
Tagged with: death, evil, God, justice, love, natural disasters, pain, poverty, punishment, suffering, violence, war
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering
Can Christians be Hardass?
“Love your enemies.” “Do good to those who hate you.” “Do not resist evil.” “Turn the other cheek.” So let me get this straight: If you’re a Christian and someone says, “I want to take advantage of you,” the truly…
Tagged with: Christianity, evil, injustice, Jesus Christ, justice, love, non-violence, pain, peace, spirituality, suffering, the Bible, violence
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Is Wealth a Blessing or a Curse?
As I write this, John McAfee is on the lam. Yes, the founder of antivirus software giant McAfee Inc. has now apparently been classified as a human “virus” by the police in the small Central American country of Belize, where…
Tagged with: business, evil, John McAfee, Joshua Davis, money, poverty, service, sex, spirituality, the Bible, wealth
Posted in Current Events, Money and Business
Posted in Current Events, Money and Business
Is Hurricane Sandy God’s Punishment on the Wicked?
Amid the destruction and death caused by Hurricane Sandy there are stories of hope and redemption. A young man named Mike, washed out into the bay from his home on the Jersey Shore, managed to make his way back to…
Tagged with: children, Christianity, death, evil, fundamentalism, God, hurricanes, justice, mercy, natural disasters, punishment, suffering, the Bible
Posted in All About God, Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Bible Re-Viewed
It’s Not All In Your Head (And It’s Not All Your Fault)
Recently I’ve been reading anewfreelife’s blog on “rising from the ashes of domestic violence.” Here is her description of the blog: I am a survivor of domestic violence, and this is my voice. I am here to share with you…
Tagged with: abusive relationships, controlling relationships, domestic violence, evil, healing, karma, pain, poverty, punishment, reincarnation, spirituality, suffering, violence
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Sex Marriage Relationships
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Sex Marriage Relationships
Which Tree is in the Middle of Your Garden?
For a video reading of this article on YouTube, click here. In the spiritually symbolic garden that God planted eastward in Eden in Genesis 2—the garden where God placed Adam (a Hebrew word meaning “humankind”), and later Eve (a Hebrew…
Tagged with: Adam, Eden, Eve, evil, God, healing, new Jerusalem, Revelation, spiritual meaning, spirituality, the Bible, tree of knowledge of good and evil, tree of life
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Lee Boyd Malvo: Human Justice vs. Divine Justice
Lee Boyd Malvo. To anyone who was living in the Washington, D.C. area in October, 2002, that name, along with the name of John Allen Muhammad, is indelibly associated with terror, pain, and death. Muhammad was tried, convicted, and executed…
Tagged with: death, divine justice, evil, heaven, hell, John Allen Muhammad, justice, Lee Boyd Malvo, pain, sniper killings, suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
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