[Start the song now.] MARRY ME, M. Only once was I offered a hand in marriage just what I needed -- the sanctity.  It could have been the look in those eyes, in that moment you could be mine.  Our hands entwined for all to see I dreamed that dream believed it could be  You couldn’t understand why I hesitated, it wasn’t your fault, your spirit soared free.  You couldn’t really know why I let my...

John Unlike Me is a pseudonym, a symbol even, for a truly amazing man that I met during the post-modern 1990's. I had newly come to faith in God in the mid-90's and I was progressing through a six-week interval some of you may be conscious of or have observed in new believers: It is a stage most noticeable in men by a new found sense of hugging or embracing other men as a form of...

When Were You Ever Pressed Into Service? How Did It Make You Feel? As a teen male, I was first pressed into service in an unappreciated role of "gay" high-schooler. Of course, in those years, it was nowhere a positive look. My life was a lonely, terribly unspectacular tale of beatings, spittings, and being trespassed against. Just kidding! Yes, really. I was a very...

". . . part of the problem is that migration officials don’t understand why someone would become a Christian and don’t understand what it means to be a Christian. Less than 20 percent of Swedes say they believe in God. This is most apparent when they come to the question when a convert says I converted because of the love I have received from Jesus Christ. And they almost mockingly...

This is bigotry I just can not understand on any level. Why are people of faith attacking and killing their own? Why can't they just suffer the loss? And, in the instances of prayers. I just can not relate to this happening. >>>>>> (CNN) The father of a member of the Afghan all-girls robotics team that made headlines last month after overcoming US visa obstacles died...

Desmond Doss Desmond Doss enlisted in April 1942, but refused to kill or carry a weapon into combat because of his personal beliefs as a Seventh-day Adventist. He consequently became a medic, and while serving in the Pacific theatre of World War II he helped his country by saving the lives of his comrades, at the same time adhering to his religious convictions....