Author: John Ingram Walker, MD

Bad news: Little meaningful progress has been made in finding a drug that will prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease. Good news: A growing number of research physicians believe that lifestyle

Lately I’ve been thinking about the anger that seems to infiltrate our daily lives.   Are the social, political and religious conflicts in our country worse now than in the past

Lately I’ve been thinking about our country’s political rancor: the vexing vile, vulgar, vacuous, violent, venomous, vicious, vilifications and vindications we perpetuate on each other. (Is that the longest alliteration

When my brother Cornel and I were youngsters we would visit our paternal grandparents who lived 25 miles from the Big Sandy crossroads in the heart of the Big Thicket,

When personal tragedy strikes the first question we ask is “Why me, Lord?” To answer that question we must first look inward: “Did I do something to bring misfortune on

Trees snap. Rooftops sail through the air. Cars tumble. Walls collapse. Water engulfs the land. A hurricane tears the shore asunder. An earthquake swallows cities. Terrorists threaten civilizations. Epidemics devastate

Sometime in August 2004 I was on the way to a speaking engagement on congested Texas Highway 6 just outside the 610 Loop in Houston.  I’m the kind of guy

Throughout his life the great Christian apologist, C. S. Lewis, experienced brief but profound moments of joyful longing. Lewis believed that all of us possess a desire for an inexpressive

Yesterday I said something that revealed a bitter heart. I made a spiteful, catty, mean spirited and slanderous statement about someone. Vicki rightly rebuked my remark because it was a

Over the years I have treated numerous Christians in my psychiatric practice many of whom are duty-bound. These duty-bound, white-knuckle Christians focus on earning their way into heaven. They attend

            Are geniuses born or made? Certainly successful people have innate gifts, but peak performance probably more to do with hard work than with genetic

Perfection Grading Scale Grade yourself on each of the questions below thusly: If you answer never to a question give yourself a grade of O  If you answer some of