For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and the region’s economic future. As humans continue to divert its waters for agriculture and mine its marshlands for industry, Great Salt Lake could vanish entirely within five years. A refuge for more than ...

The broad valley of Jackson Hole and the ridges and slopes around what would become Jackson, Wyoming, had long been a crossroads to the region's Indigenous peoples when fur trappers arrived in the early decades of the 19th century and made Jackson Hole a lynchpin of their continental commerce. Many came and went, but some stayed, with a settlement taking form near the banks of Flat Creek at the base of East Gros Ventre Butte. Small-scale cattle ranching formed the first economic base of th...

Our health system doesn't work for the most vulnerable. It's time for people of faith to respond with concrete action to demonstrate God's love and effect real change. Here's how.The dialogue on how to fix US health care is mired in partisan policy debates. Rather than idly waiting for the gridlock to resolve, people of faith can live into their call to care for the underserved right now. Drawing from his experience as medical doctor, pastor, and founder and CEO of ...

How many people even realized the Bible has important truth that has been "sealed" until an appointed time? The prophets Isaiah and Daniel foretold it. The Apostle Peter reminded us about it. Isaac Newton also pointedly referred to the hidden truth, and Thomas Aquinas surely alluded to it. However as inspired and brilliant as these men were they could not arrive at it! That's because that great understanding has been kept for YOU at this time! Our knowledge of the Bible has been childlike ...

Millions of people have read the Bible over the course of nearly 2,000 years. However the greatest minds in history have not been able to come to its full truth. That would not be possible until we arrived at the time appointed by God, in which mankind was to have the concealed Biblical truth revealed. The prophet Daniel, who lived hundreds of years before Christ, was told why certain Biblical prophecies could not be understood, “for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the ...

There are hundreds of furniture companies to choose from, so consumer reporting agencies don’t provide with as much help as they do in the auto, electronic, or home appliance industries. Plus a lot of unforeseen problems can be traceable directly to the store selling you the merchandise. Since there is apparently no really reliable direction to be gotten anywhere, everyone is left to somehow become their own self-styled “expert”. But there should be a better way! And there is. This brief b...

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Awaken the imagination to what is possible when people of faith respond to God's call. We've forgotten that the key to being healthy is realizing we're not on the path alone. When we're not well, it affects the entire system in which we live and work and play. When we grasp our shared humanity rather than resisting it, the mirror becomes less dim, and we begin to cast light on questions of health and healthcare.Wholeness and wellness are necessities for the kind of world we want to ...

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This is a collection of sermons which explores Christian understandings of healing, wholeness, and restoration. Among the contributors are Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Brown Taylor, Maxie Dunnam, Barbara Lundblad, William Sloane Coffin, and Reginald Mallett.The editor of the volume, G. Scott Morris, is a physician and an elder in The United Methodist Church. He is founder and executive director of the Church Health Center in Memphis, Tennessee, the largest faith-based, not-for-profi...

Why do some teens thrive as adults while others struggle? What makes the difference?Gary Chapman, the New York Times #1 bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages®, and Clarence Shuler met when Clarence was still a teen. Gary mentored Clarence and helped him make wise decisions during his tumultuous teen years. Decades later, the two are still close friends and both lead powerful ministries that help people all around the world live better, more godly liv...