Last week I was at the grocery store. The person who was checking me out was not at all interested in helping me in anyway. She hurried through the order and watched as I packed the bags. When she was finished scanning the items she stood there looking impatient as I tried to keep up. Near the end, she began helping the next person before I was finished packing. As a result...

I read this week that violence, angry, mean and horrible is on the rise. I read that there isn’t much hope for us as a culture or a society. I read that hope for something better has all but disappeared and that there really isn’t much reason to bother at all. I read that we are pretty much doomed to follow horrible examples and that our ability as a group, a society ...