Struggles
14 March 2010All of us, without exception, deal with struggles in our lives from time to time. For some of us, the worst struggles we face, though serious to us at the time, are relatively minor in retrospect. For others, there are some struggles that most people could not make it through. The question is, why do [...]
Miracles Run in My Family
22 February 2010My mom’s life is a series of miracles. As a baby she was rushed to the hospital not breathing. The doctors gave up on her and pronounced her dead but the nurse and my grandfather didn’t give up. They managed to dislodge a pea she had sucked down her wind pipe and get her breathing. [...]
Good News
19 February 2010I went back to the doctor today and got some very good news. He said the swelling in my optic nerve is almost gone! He expects that over the next weeks and months I should see gradual improvement in my vision. He said that I would probably have some permanent vision loss but he believes [...]
What the Future May Hold
11 March 2009It’s been 10 months since I regularly wrote for this blog and now I’m thinking about picking it up again. Much has changed in that 10 months and little of that change has been positive. This country is accelerating down the road to destruction more rapidly each day. I don’t know if it’s even possible [...]
Thompson in South Carolina
27 June 2007I has the privilege today of attending a luncheon sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Convention. The luncheon was held in Columbia and the keynote speaker was Fred Dalton Thompson. When the opportunity to go to this presented itself, there was no chance I was going to pass it up. Thompson spoke for about 25 [...]
The Social Gospel
21 February 2007This has been a difficult post to write. I’ve been working on it for several days. My biggest concern is that I not be misunderstood but I fear I cannot do justice to what I’m getting at. Some will read this post and just say “oh yeah!” Others will read it and conclude that I’m [...]
The New Religious Right?
6 February 2007Opinion Journal today has a piece with the unappealing title Tithe and Spend Republicans. The ostensible subject of the piece is Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee who is a Baptist Pastor and self proclaimed conservative. Huckabee, however, seems to believe that the state should be the vehicle for carrying out Christian charity. From the article: So [...]
Thanksgiving, the Framers and Secularism
22 November 2006The debate has raged in America for years now concerning the place of religion, specifically Judeo-Christian religion, in the public sphere. Secularists today claim that religion has no place in the public square and that the founder never intended it to. To them, the establishment clause of the First Amendment takes ultimate precedence over the [...]
