For quite some time I have questioned the value of all of our inventions and whether they improve life or detract from it. I look around our culture and American society at large and I watch my fellow humans and I just do not see them as better off than…
This morning I read Isaiah 39 in my morning devotional. It continues the story of King Hezekiah. In previous chapters the king was in dire jeopardy of losing his kingdom and his life. God spared Jerusalem and saved the city and while sick and about to die, Hezekiah prayed to…
I am reading an excellent book by the deceased William Barclay, Jesus As They Saw Him: New Testament Interpretations of Jesus. I am a Barclay fanboy even if I do not agree with everything about his theology and some of it I find grossly in error. He was a great…
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…