I am not “pro-choice.”  Nor am I “pro-life.” The choice vs. life dichotomy is illogical and dysfunctional.  Choice is not the opposite of life, and to pit the two stances against each other with such paralyzing rhetoric is only yet another sign of the polarization of this Age.

Looking back over six years, one of the weirdest things about homelessness was the phenomenon of feeling that you’re basically a decent guy with sound moral values, who was brought up in the 50’s on the Ten Commandments, and who was engrained to love God and love his neighbor as himself — and yet, you were thrown in the same bag with hardened street criminals, and people who — unlike Blue Boy — simply did not give a flying hoot about any other human being.

But if the teaching refers to a theme that is topical to the present day (e.g., abortion), we notice that the Scriptures evoked do not clearly reference that theme. Why would this be?

Even many Christians these days don’t seem to know what the Bible says.

At the time of this writing, I will soon have lived inside for six years. 

I was a little older when I first heard the term “afterlife.” I did not equate it with the same heaven my mother had described.