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Religion

Faith and Family: Kathleen Carlton Johnson

We are heading into the season of Lent. I have been thinking that this season is not only a time of reflection and assessment, but also an opportunity to discipline human desire. In our modern life, taking time out from the rush of media, devices, and a fast-paced lifestyle, we seldom stop to ...

Faith and family: Kathleen Carlton Johnson

Many of the Churches this weekend will read from Mathews 5:13-15. This is the famous “ You are the salt of the Earth”, giving the challenge to Christians, that they were to live in community and to shine forth their love and concern for others. These two care and love; if these lose their ...

Faith and Family: Kathleen Carlton Johnson

Winter seems to isolate everything; perhaps it is the cold, the sparse landscape, or the limited movements of our very bodies that make us dull and often despair. Melancholy has always been one of the basic themes of cold culture's literature. The cold can also make us more introspective. Maybe ...

Faith and Family: Kathleen Carlton Johnson

I am currently reading The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark. The book was originally published in 1996 by the Princeton Press. Dr. Stark was a professor of Sociology and Comparative Religion. It is a book about Christianity, but not from a religious or scriptural point of view, but from a ...

Faith and Family: Kathleen Carlton Johnson

There is so much going on in our current times that we sometimes forget what the core values are in our fast-paced lives. One thing I have noticed in recent culture is the use of media and communication to drive us to become consumers. Consumers of social media and trending culture, with the ...