July 7, 2026

Nursing Here or There?

By David Haldane   July 6, 2026     I love Filipino nurses. As my father lay dying with Alzheimer’s and a host of other ailments […]
June 14, 2026

Boomers: Emboldened or Embalmed?

By David Haldane   June 15, 2026     My six-year-old daughter said something mind-altering the other day. We were nearing the end of our long […]
April 27, 2026

A Psychedelic Prayer

By David Haldane April 27, 2026     “We had prayed for this day to come,” he said. The speaker was Marcus Luttrell, a former Navy […]
March 1, 2026

Another Journalist Bites the Dust

By David Haldane March 2, 2026     I promised to bring him a crucifix. He was my publicist in Manila, a devout Catholic with whom […]
December 1, 2025

Interfaith Marriage: Uniting Disparate Faiths

By David Haldane Dec. 1, 2025     The furor started with a statement by the US vice president. “Do I hope that eventually she is […]
October 27, 2025

Conversion Therapy: Help or Harm?

By David Haldane October 27, 2025   I’m almost stuck in the middle. On one side stand Christian therapists offering what they regard as helpful counseling […]
September 22, 2025

A Political Assassination

By David Haldane Sept. 22, 2025     My wife had never heard of him. “Do you know who Charlie Kirk is?” she asked as we […]
September 14, 2025

Wailing at the Western Wall

By David Haldane Sept. 14, 2025   It hit me like a stone. One minute I was standing awkwardly at Jerusalem’s historic Western Wall wondering what […]
August 18, 2025

Landing With a Thud

By David Haldane August 18, 2025   The silence was deafening. “So,” the master-of-ceremonies asked the audience at my first book launch on Siargao Island, “are […]
August 11, 2025

Robbing the Cradle

By David Haldane August 11, 2025     The findings didn’t surprise me. A study published in Psychology Today examines the question of which partner is […]
August 4, 2025

Brotherly Love

By David Haldane Aug. 4, 2025     This isn’t the first time it’s happened, though I expect it will be the last. My brother has […]
July 13, 2025

Invisible Fireworks

  By David Haldane July 14, 2025   I’d never seen anything like it. The July 4th fireworks display that didn’t happen. And yet, a perfect […]