Articles
Agape provides discussions of relevant topics for New Voice, a local Christian newspaper, published monthly. Below are recent published articles:
The movie A Beautiful Mind provides viewers with an inside look at the complex mystery known as schizophrenia.
With the trend today of couples waiting until their thirties and forties to start a family, the challenges with becoming pregnant increase and the issue of infertility becomes a central focus.
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Listen closely to your television, or watch the billboards one day on your way home from work and you may realize that you have also fallen prey to the lie that ‘you aren’t really good enough the way you are’.
New years are always a time of new beginnings. As we put up the new calendars and take time to reflect on last year, let’s think about some creative ways to spiritually jump-start us into the new year.
When we talk with someone important, we want, most of all, to be heard and understood. Despite this desire, often when we talk with one another we only partially listen and miss opportunities to truly communicate with one another.
September 11, 2001! Could there be one American who would not know immediately the meaning of that statement?
Back to School - Making the Grade
Whether your child worries about forgetting his lunch, missing the bus, making new friends, or wonders how he will fit into his new school - it is important to remember that it can be hard to be enthusiastic about the first day back to school.
Everyone can benefit from a positive mentoring relationship but there are certain qualifications you should look for when choosing a mentor for yourself.
Fighting Fair in Relationships
Life on earth is a brief journey. Whether that journey is a pleasant and meaningful one depends primarily upon you an the way you communicate with the people you love.
Do you realize that you are God’s beloved? God the father loves you, His son or daughter, unconditionally! He loved you before we were born - before you could do anything to deserve or earn His affections.
Sexual Conflict and the Christian Community's Response
Repenting of our own immorality must involve sorrow for any hostility we have had toward homosexuals.
Stress Management for the Hopelessly Stressed
Simply defined, stress is any change that you must adapt to, ranging from the negative extreme of actual physical danger to the positive extreme of falling in love, or getting a promotion at work.
If the Earth’s population were shrunk into a village of just 100 people, with all the human ratios existing in the world still remaining, what would this tiny, diverse village look like?
When Relationships Don't Go Well
All relationships hold some pain but relationships that don’t go well cause considerable anger, disappointment, and a sense of failure and shame. Dissonant relationships may occur in friendship, dating or marriage, and with neighbors, work associates, and family.
All Stressed Out and No Where To Go
You may have heard that stressed spelled backwards is desserts, but what does that really mean? … is there a way you can find time to have your cake and eat it too?