DREAMING SERIOUS DREAMS
Let me share a dream from a long time ago. Memory takes me back. My head was bent over homework—third grade stuff or so.…
RELIGION AS ADDICTION: WAIT, WHAT? I COULD BE ADDICTED TO RELIGION?
Religious idolatry for us Christians, at its core, is when we love our beliefs about God and people more than we ever actually love…
UNDERSTANDING ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
Content Warning: This article mentions substance use which may distress some individuals. If you look at the NAD Counselors Directory, there is only one…
THE BELIEF NARCOTIC
Not for us the silver needle through which flows euphoric highs … and death. Not for us the innocent-looking pill which tempts overdose. Not…
PHARISAICAL ADDICTION TO RELIGION: WHAT DID JESUS DO?
Can you “have too much religion”? Depends on what you mean by religion, of course, but from one perspective, the answer is surely, “Yes!”…
FAMILY RULES
The Question “If you take an alcoholic family, and an ultra-conservative family, and you remove the concept of religion and alcohol, and you compare…
ARE CHURCHES ADDICTION SUPPLY INDUSTRIES?
I never felt I was bad enough to be a minister. I’m not saying I was a saint, nor am I claiming to have…
“WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU?”
I was sitting in a doctor’s office one afternoon in 1978, flipping through Sports Illustrated. One article caught my eye. Sebastian Coe, a British…
DO YOU PLAY THE ADVENTIST LANGUAGE GAME?
When I lived in England and watched the part of the BBC news in which the results of the day’s cricket matches were announced,…
I CAN STOP ANYTIME I WANT TO. I JUST DON’T WANT TO.
Do you know why people smoke crack? It’s the same reason why people smoke cigarettes, or weed, or shoot heroin, or do meth, or…