I am normally pretty glum about the hopes of the United States ever looking like it did when I was a kid again, let alone ever being the ideal location and hub of freedom and liberty it once was, even if only in my mind. Then I have an encounter…
I looked over Twitter today. Twitter is home to the insane and normal people making fun of them. This is its appeal. The circus comes to you and it is free. I am disturbed. I am not even old and I can remember when the world was nothing like it…
Last night I watched the Liberty Flames take on the Eastern Kentucky basketball team in the ASUN semi finals. EKU was hot and dominating the game from the get go. They were getting buckets and owning the glass and it seemed like they grabbed every contested and loose ball over…
According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, at different times in the history of the now United State, a single solitary grey man has appeared in times of trouble to uplift the downtrodden and motivate the able bodied to rise to the occasion and defend not only themselves and their family, but the…
I recently read Twain's, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I had never heard of this book, but it is part of a 100 year old set of Twain novels I acquired a few years ago. I read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in public school and some of…
As I watched my cat using my desk Bible and preaching Bible as pillows. I thought him doing this again (he does this daily) is a regular image of most people's relationship with their Bibles. A lot of people drag their Bible to church on Sundays and Wednesdays, but on…
Here we are again. It is November and we have all been subject to an endless stream of lies from people who want power and money and all that comes with it. It is election time and an endless number of people are sounding the trumpet about the villainy of…
A few years ago I was involved in a struggling church. I diagnosed some problems and spoke with the leadership of this church about the problems. Namely they were unwelcome to the community that had changed around them. Decades ago the community around the church had been white and the…