Non-Christians are often ill-informed on Christian beliefs and have little understanding or interest in what goes on in a typical Christian congregation. The following paragraphs are written with the hope that they will shed a bit of light on the subject. As I write this post, I must confess my inadequacy. I am no theologian, […]
This is a true story. I have changed the names of the participants in order to spare them from possible embarrassment. After all, I did not ask them for permission to post this account of a rather amusing incident extracted from our family archives. Kevin loved his blanket. In fact, he loved it so much […]
Paths of Glory was a powerful anti-war motion picture made in 1957. It depicts the horrors of trench warfare in World War I, and it illustrates the dehumanizing effects of warfare. The story describes the travails of members of a French battalion on the front line during the third year of the Great War. The […]
(Note: I’m off to Arizona and Nevada to visit with family. This will be my last post until about July 10th.) About a year ago I included information on the Shroud of Turin in a much longer post about proofs of God’s existence. Today I am concentrating on the Shroud alone. I urge you to […]
Anytime a momentous event such as a major disaster, a notable assassination, or some other out-of-the-ordinary event occurs it provokes a visceral response in witnesses and in the general public. Most of us who were mature at that time can remember what we were doing when the Pearl Harbor attack was announced, when […]
On Sunday, June 16th, an opinion column written by Peter Funt appeared in certain papers across the country. In this column he extolled the virtues of a liberal/progressive approach to American government. In Funt’s own words: “Modern politics can be summed up this way: Republicans frequently refer to Ronald Reagan, while Democrats prefer to conjure […]
On June 17, 1972, four men were arrested at the National Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. It appeared to be a routine burglary, but subsequent investigations revealed that the men who broke into Democratic offices were actually agents hired by the Committee for the Re-election of President Richard Nixon. The Washington […]
Today marks the two-hundred fourth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. On June 18, 1815, on the fields near Waterloo in central Belgium, 72,000 French troops, led by Napoleon, suffered a crushing military defeat from a combined Allied army of 113,000 British, Dutch, Belgian, and Prussian troops. Thus ended 23 years of almost constant warfare […]
Some months ago I read the book entitled The Righteous Mind written by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. The book received a considerable amount of favorable press. Haight is a self-identified liberal/progressive. He hated Ronald Reagan and was thrilled with the emergence of Barack Obama on the American political scene. He could not understand the conservative […]
I am a member of a large and complex extended family. This post contains selective photographs of my parents, half-brothers and sisters, and other members of their several families. The information herein is primarily of interest to my sons, grandchildren, nephews, and nieces, but I hope that others may also find it informative. I am […]
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