Andrew Craig Brunson is a pastor from North Carolina who, for the past twenty-three years, has lived in Turkey with his wife and three children.  He was the pastor of the Izmir Diriliş (the Resurrection) Church, a small evangelical Presbyterian congregation in the city of Izmir with about twenty-five members.

Animals fatally maul, sting, trample, and chew about a million humans per year. Pretty nice of them, given the numbers on our side—the average of 750 million chickens we kill in the U.S. every month, for instance. In an ideal world, no one would ever get mauled by a bear,

Pope Francis denounced the “complicit silence” that has allowed violence to consume the Middle East and drive tens of thousands of Christians from their homes, during a remarkable gathering Saturday of Orthodox patriarchs and Catholic leaders united in praying for peace in the region. Francis hosted the daylong ecumenical service

In the Dune series of science fiction novels there are these massive ships called Guild Heighliners.  They are gigantic cigar-shaped vessels that move at greater than the speed of light because the Guild Navigators have learned how to “fold” space.  The novels are Sci-fi masterpieces and go into wonderful detail. 

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water.  On Friday, a freight train  derailed just south of Doon, Iowa, in the northwest part of the state.  The area was already experiencing flood waters and around 4:30 in the morning thirty-two cars full of crude oil from Alberta,

Most people are unaware of the vast gang netherworld.  They thing of movies like The Blackboard Jungle or The Warriors, but have no real idea of todays armies of the night.  I use that phrase because the film The Warriors was actually based on the novel Armies of the Night.

By now it has become clear that the goal of the major pharmaceutical companies is to have every single person in America, if not the world, on some form of anti-depressant drug.  Unfortunately, the AMA (American Medical Association) seems to be fully supportive of this idea.  Sometimes it feels like

After much detailed research for a book I am writing entitled Ready to Pop : The Rise of Mass Murder in America, I have come to the conclusion that there are five factors in America today which have combined into a perfect storm to fuel mass murder including school shootings.

After much detailed research for a book I am writing entitled Ready to Pop : The Rise of Mass Murder in America, I have come to the conclusion that there are five factors in America today which have combined into a perfect storm to fuel mass murder including school shootings.

PART ONE : It’s Guns, but not just guns This past week saw another horrible school shooting, this one is Santa Fey, Texas. where a teenage boy shot and killed eight students and two teachers at a Houston-area high  The Friday attack, which also wounded another thirteen, echoed the all-too-familiar horrors Americans are