A pilgrim's thoughts

Rear Naked Choke'd out by Royce Gracie. He said, "this will be a pleasure for me" (credits: photos by Rita Philip) Four ho...

Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park. Sept 11, 2009 Vibrant strong tall trees, green and healthy, reaching for the skies. Dead rotting c...

Finally, after two months of pleading, argument and persuasion, she agreed to join Gracie Jiu Jitsu class, but once a week. She learned Stan...

David is our instructor on Saturdays at the Blue Valley Gracie Jiujitsu training center . He has practised Jiu-Jitsu under Helio and also Ro...

Our church, Vineyard at Overland Park had the Reflect Conference and their sermon audio is here. I would recommend listening to at least ...

“These are the things we do,” he said, pointing to color snapshots of aborted fetuses. “Hydrocephalus, spina bifida, fused legs, open spine,...

It is a given that free speech is protected in America. Unfortunately, in the Miss USA contest, Carrie Prejean was penalized for her answer ...

Thank you for having the courage to consider adoption. We are Rita and Anil, and would like to tell you about ourselves. We have been mar...

Life is not always Just. Human systems are just as Unjust. When we are small, we are fed stories of how it all works out in the end. How the...

The most painful dilemmas in Life are not when the devil and his followers attack and wound you; it is when God fails you. Disappointment wi...

touching article (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/love-in-the-time-of-prostate-cancer/)

Would you like to help prevent a suicide? ( and help spread the gospel across the internet ) There is despair and desperation across the wo...

Are you planning to kill yourself? Stop! listen to this song ... hope and meaning for life if you are depressed, sad and hopeless and want t...

This article was submitted to the KC Star and the Washington Post - unfortunately, only 3 days before the election. It was rejected due to t...

watch video CNN : http://www.yahoo.com/s/971741 BBC article: Fear and fundamentalism in India

Looking at the stock ticker chart on Yahoo today, I am both fascinated and terrified. It is like watching the movie of a whale plunging to i...

Two things I read today: 1) A news item Karthik Rajaram, an unemployed Indian origin businessman in Los Angeles, killed his family and himse...

This article by the BBC claims that "For those who believe the Bible is the inerrant, unaltered word of God, there will be some very un...

Dear Barack, As an immigrant in Kansas, I would love to see a 'person of color' become president - to shake up the prejudice among t...

Every day, you read the newspapers and read headlines blaring about "genocide in Darfur". United Nations sanctions have been impos...