On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd suffered death soon after being arrested and restrained by members of the Minneapolis Police Department. Like most Americans, I was appalled by images of Officer Chauvin with his knee on the neck of a prostrate Floyd as the latter struggled to breathe. It was a terrible scene, and it […]
I love a good book. Almost every evening after going to bed I read for an hour or so. It’s not heavy reading. Sometimes I read a bit of history, but usually it’s a novel. If it is a truly good one, I will probably read it again at some future time. Some books I […]
When you pause to think about it, the years fly by so swiftly. Sometimes it feels as though you are living in a dream, but then you realize that what you are experiencing is all too real. And life is so short. Our nation is only 245 years old, and I have been around more […]
Perhaps I posted these thoughts before. I’m not certain about that. My memory becomes a bit fuzzy at times. Anyway, it does no harm to repeat them. After all, truth is truth. When I was a very little boy someone told that the sun was much bigger than the earth. I looked up at that […]
The photograph above was taken in 1961, several years before the birth of our fifth son. Ann was in the shopping mall one day with the four boys in tow, and a lady asked Ann if she was Catholic. “No,” Ann replied, “just a passionate Protestant.”
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 […]
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