Understand and trust

I once was leading a group session as a counselor at an adolescent treatment facility. There were about a dozen kids in the group.  We were outside on a deck between two buildings.  There were two brothers in the group – 16, 17 years old.  One of them had been in the facility for several […]

Stormtime

It’s Springtime. Balmy temperatures, pleasant breezes, gentle showers, budding flowers.  Nice.  But wait – that’s not the whole picture, is it?  Just ask the folks in Texas about gentle showers.  Or ask people in the plains about pleasant breezes.  And today (June 1) is the beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season.  Springtime can be brutal.  One day, […]

Radicalized Christians

You’ve heard the term “radicalized Muslim” being used to describe people who have joined terrorist groups such as ISIS. It refers to a person who was living a basically peaceful and harmless existence then was convinced somehow to adopt a terrorist mindset and join a jihadist group or commit acts of terror on their own.  […]