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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi on Religion No proof he actually said this but a true statement nonetheless. Praise Be to God
Friday Reflection 8/28/26 Read More »
NOTE: This is a repost from 2021, and a great opportunity for me to reconnect with a powerful spiritual discipline while on vacation this year. Hopefully it may do the same for you. While on vacation in 2019 I came across a spiritual discipline that I found uniquely powerful. It was presented by a dynamic
2026: Opening the Windows Read More »
The Command to Love The Biblical Foundation of Christian Pacifism We continue our investigation of the scriptural support for pacifism that we began two weeks ago. I will continue to lean heavily on War and the Gospel by Jean Lasserre. This week I will look at the biblical foundation for Christian pacifism. It is the
The Way of Peace 3/4/26 Read More »
What is History History, as my recently deceased college professor used to teach, is change through time. You start with a description of the era under analysis, and then you show what factors led to the changes that transformed that era at the end of the survey period. All this necessarily involves gathering facts, and
Historical Revisionism and Its Uses Read More »
Dylan by the Numbers I first saw Bob Dylan live when I was 15. November 4, 1978. I most recently saw him at nearly age 62 April 1, 2025. A 47-year span, across 6 different decades. I have been to a total of 18 Dylan shows. This marks me as a rank amateur compared to
The Lyrics of My Life: My Journey with Bob Dylan Read More »
A Reset It is crazy that 2025 is here. Weren’t we just yesterday concerned with Y2K? Time flies when you’re watching the world burn. I don’t mean to sound excessively pessimistic. Personally, I cannot complain. I am doing better than I deserve, and that’s a fact. I, however, do not inhabit the world that so
New Year, New Focus Read More »
A Good Night to Get Called Out It was a non-descript Saturday night, while in high school, and I was waiting in the kitchen for a friend to pick me up to go out to a party. My parents had a small black and white television that they kept in the kitchen, that seemed very
Charlton Heston Reduces Me to Rubble Read More »
A Tale of Jackassery This is a story set at Christmastime. That does not make it particularly heartwarming. It is really a story of police officers with waaay too much time on their hands. It was December 21st. I think it was a Tuesday, which would have made it 1993. A co-worker and I were
Two Bartenders Threaten Western Civilization Read More »
Family Legends Every family has legends. They are usually grounded in events, but they tend to grow as time goes on. They are kind of like fishing stories; they just get bigger and bigger as time goes by. The importance of family legends is that, whether true or not, they remind us of our personal
The Purple Ornament Read More »
An update on my annual Thanksgiving message. The Often-Harsh Reality As we start up another season of Thanksgiving in America, I cannot help but feel thankful. I will in all likelihood sit stuffed to the gills after a series of stunningly bad food choices, having left neither the couch nor my lounge pants for the