Solving Food Insecurity

Last updated on: October 31, 2025 at 12:14 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

How to create change series Food insecurity is a growing problem. It may get worse with economic changes and reductions in government programs. Every year, 3.5 million workers and their families face homelessness due to business changes. Eventually, most find new jobs, but the interim period is inhumane. It can happen to any of us. Ways to help those in need are essential. There are ways. This non-profit business addresses the food side of the equation, using a self-supporting business... Read more

No Man Is an Island: Finding Your Purpose Through Change

Last updated on: October 23, 2025 at 3:02 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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Part 2 of Finding Yourself series Institutions today are much like people: they struggle to define themselves and their purpose in a rapidly changing environment. Change has always existed and always will. While the core of love, often represented by the Divine, remains constant, people and societies evolve, sometimes slowly and sometimes dramatically during a crisis. People may hold onto old problems, but shifting the direction they are headed is essential, even if it doesn’t lead to instant perfection. It’s... Read more

Finding Yourself series

Last updated on: October 16, 2025 at 6:11 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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Part 1: Was I ever lost? What do you do when you want to be a fireman? You dream of saving people from burning buildings. But then you try for training, see the blood and guts of car wreck victims, and it loses its appeal. So you drop out? It’s a soul-crushing experience if that’s what was in your sights for years. Can we ever regain that desire to be a hero or be a famous singer? Would we be... Read more

People Have Dominion Over the Earth

Last updated on: October 10, 2025 at 3:18 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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How to Create Change series We can keep the world a livable place for our children if we act now. And we can do it! We’re responsible for the Earth “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” ”God said through the prophet in Leviticus 25:23: ‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me. Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for... Read more

Qualitative Measures for Quality of Life

Last updated on: September 29, 2025 at 6:22 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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How to Create Change series US Compared to the World (TL;DR: This article is necessarily long because of the topic. You can read the Summary and Conclusion at the end.) When I visited Holland, people greeted me with joy, reflecting on the US turning the tide during WWII. Everything I hear about the US from within our country is that we are the greatest country on Earth. People in every country really should be proud of the country they live... Read more

American Dream, Dead or Alive

Last updated on: September 7, 2025 at 4:03 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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How to create change series Our spirituality is a reflection of us. What do we hold dear and want for everyone around the world: Jesus’ promise of forgiveness? Jesus’ promise of salvation? Jesus’ promise of abundant life (in our relationships with others and all that brings)? Reference verse: “The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. But He replied to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the... Read more

Stopping the Gun Violence Plague

Last updated on: September 3, 2025 at 2:43 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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How to create change series It just happened again in Minnesota when a gunman shot through a church window and killed two children. The biggest killer of our children in the US is gun violence. Like the Black Death with its monstrous boils and organ failure, gun violence destroys entire families. Drowning in a swamp of misinformation and pressure campaigns by gun activists, it feels like no one can see straight, let alone do anything about it. Yes, we can!... Read more

Turning the World Upside Down

Last updated on: August 27, 2025 at 7:15 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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How to create change series Most people look at problems in our community or world and think the task is too big for one person, but this series will help those who want to be more active to effectively organize movements and create needed change. Jesus and his followers turned the world upside down. Leaders opposed change, wanting everything to stay as it was, just as they had killed earlier prophets. Many shunned Jesus’ message, holding onto their own self-serving... Read more

Struggle for Life with the Unforgiving Self

Last updated on: August 18, 2025 at 10:18 am By Dorian Scott Cole

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Radical Forgiveness series Wrestling with your own demons to find life I’m writing today in sweltering 90-degree heat with humidity over 85%, because each of you are important. Our air conditioner failed. I despise August swelter and don’t make money on these blog articles, but no matter who you are or what you’ve done, or how lowly you feel, you’re important. Your spiritual growth and abundant life are important to you and me. Forgiving yourself may be the hardest thing... Read more

How to Improve Self-Image

Last updated on: August 11, 2025 at 12:28 pm By Dorian Scott Cole

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Radical Forgiveness series How to replace guilt-producing perceptions of how others see us with a realistic image Unwarranted guilt is a feeling of guilt and resultant shame without any real basis. We perceive that others look down on us as unworthy because of some deficiency. It’s likely irrational guilt. Irrational guilt is “shame, judgment, self-criticism for seemingly mundane, uncomplicated parts of daily life. Questioning if you’re working enough, if you’re a good enough partner/parent/friend, if you’re making life harder for... Read more

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