Remember when all those missionaries used to go to remote, undeveloped places to win new souls for Christ? In addition to all those shiny beads and other material goodies,…
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# Journal Entry
I am beginning to think that generals make the worst liars. It must be something about the binary nature of their business; you are either dead or alive, the…
Catechetics 101 (the unauthorized version) Why did God make me? God made me to know, love and serve Him in this world, and be with Him in the next. That was the…
A distributor for Columbia Pictures told me several years ago that the primary target for films these days is a 19-yeat-old male. I doubt that the maxim has changes…
Everything’s out-of-date in Kansas Ci – ty / They’re back about as far as they can go . . . The genesis (oops, forgot to capitalize that word) of…
When the people at the top lie and deceive it has a way of percolating down to the bottom. The Iraq war has been nothing if not a barrage…
Americans Abroad No. 8 [Continued] With about two hours to go in the trip the realization hit me that being mummified by desiccation and covered by the drifting sands…
Americans Abroad No. 7 Nubia, Upper Egypt, 1991. Putting it as charitably as truth will allow, the domestic airlines of Egypt don’t inspire confidence in even the most insouciant…
Even a hack jazz pianist like myself cannot go too long without sitting down to a keyboard and seeing what one can do with the chords and melody lone of…
When a guy dressed in expensive garments, surrounded by sycophants and privilege, who has lusted after power and likely orchestrated his own election, calls himself “a simple, humble worker,” you…