Quotes from JASON BOYETT

February 4, 1962: Take one quintuplified planetary alignment. Sprinkle in an always-mystifying solar eclipse. Stir in a potload of craziness--prayer vigils in Bombay, shelter-stocking in the United States, jittery sky-gazing everywhere--and you've got yourself an all-out Apocalypse Watch. Nothing happens, of course. But the Antichrist was born the next day, at least according to noted psychic Jeane Dixon.

But even though the culture has changed, the problems you're going through aren't so different. School stuff. Girl stuff. Locker room stuff. Feeling like a dork. Feeling lost. Not fitting in. The parentals have dealt with it all before, and they somehow got through it. Don't you think they want to help you get through it too?

It's hard to impress the girls if you're hanging out in a purple, plastic kiddie pool.

Heaven is shaped like a cube, somewhere in the vicinity of 1,400 miles wide, long, and high. That's a really big cube.

Being a man in the twenty-first century can be confusing, because our society's concept of how men are supposed to act keeps changing. Should we be the manly, aggressive Fight Club king of guys? Should we be sensitive, hair-gelled, moisturizer-slathering metrosexuals? Are we expected to pick up the tab on a date? Should we open the doors for women or not? The rules and expectations, it seems, are constantly shifting. It wasn't always this hard.

I keep living as a committed Christian, even on the days when I don't feel like one. Even on the days when the agnostic side of the faith spectrum looks pretty inviting, even on the days when doubt takes hold and shakes me to the core, I keep moving. I keep living as if the sun will rise, as if I'll survive the waters of baptism, as if Jesus will indeed carry me safely across the falls.