Pilate said to Jesus, “What is truth?” He did not wait for an answer. On many occasions I have heard it said that young people of today no longer believe in absolute truth. Truth, they say, is relative. It also follows that, without absolute truth, there can be no absolute right or absolute wrong, During […]
My wife and I spent July 4th, 1994, with our son Harold and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. Janes, our grandson, was seven years old. Granddaughters Irene and Kira were five and one respectively. They were sweet children, and we enjoyed our visit with the family immensely. During the visit I remember that little […]
I remember a brother in the faith who once remarked that Christians often shoot their wounded. He was absolutely correct. This man served in the air force, and after being severely injured in an airplane crash he left the military and attended seminary. He proved himself to be an excellent pastor and teacher, but his […]
This is a reprint of my post of July 23, 2018. Sometime during the autumn of 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war in Europe, my family moved to Florida. I believe that Dad was thinking of retiring there. Anyway, he rented a house in Punta Gorda, on Florida’s gulf coast, and we settled in […]
Last year the Trump administration made some important reforms in our Federal penal system. More reforms to the legal and correctional systems should be pursued. Too many young men are being incarcerated, and once in prison they are often hardened by exposure to evil and twisted felons. There they are also prey to purveyors of […]
I am not a physicist, theoretical or otherwise. I have a hard time understanding Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Quantum physics tends to put me in an absolute funk. But even the greatest minds are incapable of putting it all together in a comprehensible whole. They have been unable to come up with a theory […]
The First Stone Over the past month or so I have been shocked and saddened to learn of Ravi Zacharias’ secret life. Evidently he was guilty of serial sexual indiscretions, and these were later compounded by untruthful denials. The facts slowly emerged after his death last year I was a great admirer of Ravi. I […]
The nature vs nurture debate rages on. Nowhere is it more evident than in changes in people’s attitudes about homosexuality and their reaction to recent challenges to traditional definitions of gender. It is a muddled world out there. The fundamental question is the extent to what particular aspects of our behavior are a product of […]
Sometimes I recall past events in my life with either embarrassment or amusement. It really depends on how stupid my behavior was at the time. When I was 13 to 16 I ran around with a group of fellow teens. They were good guys and girls, generally well behaved, and we had loads of fun […]
It is interesting to consider the impact of American cinema on our culture – indeed on the world’s culture. At times, when reading a British novel or watching a British film, I’m surprised to see allusions to certain Hollywood film stars or movies. The influence of our cinema is undeniable. Many young people in other […]
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