Ever wondered if you are completely wrong about everything?  University has this thing where it tries to get you to think that.  It seems to want to get you to question everything in the hopes that you will turn into a depressed egocentric intellectual who finds pleasure in calling less “educated” people’s hopes naive, and [...]

Theater is always looking for good stories to tell, and will go to great lengths to create fictitious storylines to entertain the masses. I’ve always wanted to do more than that – rather than an escape, I want to use theater to bring us to a more hopeful reality. And as a theater major with [...]

This is not going to be a typical one-topic article, because I’ve realized that truth doesn’t always have to take a long time to say.  On my phone I have a section of notes entitled Random Thoughts, which I add to whenever I feel like the Lord gives me insight into something, so I thought [...]

A recent survey at my school showed that 66% of students here don’t attend “religious services”. From what I gather, the general attitude of people towards religion is that it was a thing our forefathers believed in simply because they were not informed – and now that we have knowledge, religion has become a thing [...]

This article will probably not give you any advice you haven’t already heard.  ”Don’t give up”, “Your words have power”, that’s basically going to be my point.  Yeah, I just gave away the ending.  If this article were a play, it would be of the tragedy genre – my point is going to be not [...]

This is a piece written by my good friend Matt Cassel (with some minor additions from myself).  I’ve spent many Monday evenings with Matt talking about girls, relationships, and a general assortment of life on the streets of Lancaster, PA.  This article encompasses a good chunk of our topics of discussion, and I hope that [...]

“Whoa there sonny.  I don’t do that religion stuff.  You’re barking up the wrong tree if you think you can accuse me of THAT.” I’ve heard that before, or something along those lines.  But, being in a university where the idea of religion gets tossed around like a beanbag, I would indeed like to make [...]

Last month marked the two-year anniversary of this website, and I am reminded of how the purpose of liveitreal.org has always been to pass on the things I’ve seen and heard.  I have had a lot to share, but I did reach a milestone with my article “Suffering and Poverty vs. Health and Wealth”.  That article [...]

Recently I received a message in response to my article “Suffering and Poverty vs. Health and Wealth” from a friend of mine that I met while on the streets of a beach town in California a few years ago.   I found that the stories and message she shared quite intriguing, and felt that the [...]

So here’s a question: I know of pastors who are rich, popular, drive Lexuses and live in nice houses.  I also know of pastors who have nothing, are hated by the world, and are being tortured and killed for their faith.   So…who’s more like Jesus? Believe it or not, depending on what kind of [...]