Sure, you can blame the advertisements, the TV shows and the greedy bankers if you want, but it still comes down to who drank the Kool-Aid, not who made the Kool-Aid.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.
Russell Bishop | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
You can sit there and hope, pray, project, imagine, fantasize, visualize, make up great affirmations and just about any other kind of positive thinking idea you can imagine, and not much will change - at least not without actually getting involved, without taking some form of action towards what you want more of in your life.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
When I think of the stress that often develops out of money troubles, I wonder what might have become of the lovely marriages and families I know had bankruptcy not relieved a heavy burden.
Russell Bishop | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
People have all kinds of aspirations, some lofty, some more worldly. People sometimes experience their aspirations coming true. And many people have had their aspirations materialize only to wonder why they ever wanted that in the first place.
Nicholas Brown | Posted 03.15.2009 | Living
In the grand hierarchy of crimes there are those that produce true villains: Iagos, Macbeths, and Claudiuses. And then there are those that produce the bulk of the people in the Midtown Courthouse.
Mike Doyle | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
As I mark my sixth anniversary as an ex-pat New Yorker living in King Daley's court, I realize this is the first New Year in Chicago that I don't want to be anywhere else.
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living
Mainstream healthcare in America has been abducted by the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. As profits have moved to the center stage, patient c...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green
Take back control of your life! Live in a place which has sidewalks! And walk instead of paying a trainer or going to a gym, and plant an urban garden patch.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living