Broken promises leave us feeling disillusioned and empty. You would think we would learn to tell the truth and keep our promises. But every day we are inundated with politicians that promise everything and say anything just to get elected. They won't take unpopular stands. The media is also complicit in that they will either misrepresent the news or deliberately leave out information that would frame a story truthfully. Advertisers al;soget inj on the act. They tell us to buy

Virginia Stem Owens, an English professor, was teaching a class at Texas A&M University, 25 years ago. When Owens asked her students to read the Sermon on the Mount, she was a bit stunned by the written responses of her students.   “I had expected them to have at least a nodding acquaintance with the reading and to express a modicum of piety in their written responses. After all, Texas has always been considered at least marginally part of the Bible Belt.”   The first paper I