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“Cocaine Toothache Drops,”  “Cigares de Joy Cure Asthma,” Dr. Scott’s Electric Hair Brush—“hope for the bald.” In days of old, medicine was more often harm than cure. Imagine cocaine used to cure toothaches—even in children, or smoking cigars as a cure for asthma! Imagine using a hairbrush with a small ...

As a follow-up to my article from last week, I did some unique research delving into what people actually reveal and confess in anonymity.  I conducted this via perusal of an interesting website called simpleconfess.com.    The results are- maybe- not so shocking. The premise behind Simply Confess is not Christian ...

Many Christians privately go to their pastors to receive spiritual and moral guidance on a number of topics, but not all directly attend a formal “confession”, which is a personal confession of one or more sins to a pastor.  A key component of the formal confession is the absolution of ...