Stand Up For America!

Several years ago I wrote an essay on Race and Racism in America. I failed to get anyone to print it, but I still believe that it was an accurate and fair description of our troubled racial past and our current situation.  I urge you to read it.  You can find it on the web […]

The Grapes of Wrath

Today our dear nation is undergoing a hurricane of turbulence.  On top of COVID-19, we now have race riots. As I see our cities burn, I think of God’s admonition in the Old Testament where he spoke of “visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them […]

The Proud Tower

During the coronavirus pandemic. I am usually a very optimistic person, but this feeling of isolation gets on one’s nerves.  In the words of a wise philosopher, “This too will pass.”  Nevertheless, going through a time of trial is no fun. For some reason these current events caused a writing of Edgar Allen Poe to […]