Two sentences are all it took to show me how to communicate effectively. Last month I sat in the kitchen of my daughter's home as she and my son-in-law had a brief conversation about how an unruly child had been dealt with.

After a short talk on what the New Testament says about healing and laying on of hands, the pastor called a couple to the front and had them sit down.

There is no possibility you can mistake the Bible Belt when you're there. Just look along any highway. One year while driving on an interstate I saw the towering billboard: Where are you going? Heaven? Or hell?

When I make my annual visit to my daughter's family in the Midwest I don't go there with an agenda. I let God write it, and he did.

The film “The Giver,” due out this summer, is part of a genre — “The Hunger Games” series, “Divergent” and “Elysium” are others of recent vintage — that depicts a world where some people in authority make decisions that everyone else obeys, or else.

I recently addressed our inability to do what's good for ourselves when it comes to food. And now Dr. Todd Essig, in a Forbes magazine article, warns us that we do the same thing when it comes to technology.