Armed Insurrection

On January 6, 2021, a joint session of the United States Congress assembled to count the electoral votes that would formalize Joseph Biden’s victory in the Presidential election of 2020.  Nearby, in another part of the city, President Trump was addressing a large crowd of his supporters.  Despite his failure to have courts void election […]

Spiritual Warfare

British-American author and commentator Andrew Sullivan recently made a few cogent comments about recent controversies between traditionalists and the LGBT community. He thinks the current debate is not about being pro or anti- transgender.  Gays and lesbians and transgenders are already protected under civil rights laws, and most people are willing to let them live […]

A New Contract

It’s time for a new “Contract with America.” The original contract was a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign. The contract detailed actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.  […]

He’s No Father

Our former pastor Paul S*** and his wife Becky had eight children.  Pastor Paul was in a local Seven Eleven, and two boys from a local Catholic Church saw him. One of the boys, seeing Pastor’s clerical collar, said “Good morning, Father.”, to which our good Pastor replied in kind.  As the boys exited the […]

Study Mandarin

At the Paris Climate Accords, China and India were labeled developing economies; therefore, less stringent demands were placed on them than on the United States and Europe.  Nevertheless, China pledged that it would take significant steps toward reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. President Trump did not trust them.  As they rushed to build the world’s […]

Till I See You Again

This past Saturday, October 16th, my dear friend and pastor Bishop Daniel Cox went home to be with the Lord.  I will miss him very, very much, but he had been suffering ill health for some months and wanted to shed his earthly body.  He is now in a far, far better place.  Daniel Cox […]

Rage in Loudon

There has been a great imbroglio in Loudon County Virginia schools of late because of LGBT issues and two reported sexual assaults by a transgender student.  The details are not entirely clear.  Under Federally mandated Title IX regulations, identities and reputations of the possible perpetrator and his/her victims are protected while the facts are investigated.  […]

Gretna Green

Love will always find a way. When I was a young boy in North Carolina I became aware that young couples would sometimes make a mad dash for South Carolina and get married there.  It was a runaway marriage or elopement, referring to a marriage conducted in sudden and secretive fashion.  Usually it involved a […]

Banned Prayer

In some young people sexual identity may not be firmly established.  A person is born as a biological female or biological male, but there may be environmental or other forces working on them to change their sexual identity.  If these pressures are strong enough, they might create a condition known as gender dysphoria, a term […]

Doublespeak

Years ago I was working in a government agency that received a large infusion of money as part of a Defense Department build-up.  Overnight, the key to being judged a good executive became one’s ability to spend money.  Heaven help the manager who failed to spend all the money in his allotment; and in Orwellian […]