A seasonal light blanket of snow fell yesterday. The cold has arrived. The seasons continue as they have before humans were around to mark the passage of time, or even to conceive of time. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around…… (A Christmas joke for Gary.) These photo’s were…
Not much to say this morning. Arrived at the usual time at Starbucks. Heather and Keith were behind the counter. Christmas greetings were exchanged and my cup of coffee was served. Tony had arrived before me and was seated with his laptop in place, already working. There was no one else around. Tony and…
This is the hard part. The final installment of my evaluation of Christmas is where I must make clear my measure of the Christ event. Christmas entails more than the new-born infant, the manger scene so beloved by the religious oriented pitchman. There’s profit in Christmas for the retailer as well as the religious…
The President and Republicans do a happy dance !! Deficit of (at least) 1.5 trillion is born in Washington. Do you hear what I hear? .
We are enjoying a break in the late Fall chill in the Mid-West. Today I worked outside for a few hours, enjoying the freedom of working without cumbersome gloves, wearing a light jacket. The session of work was made all the more agreeable thanks to good company. Scott and I ranged from discussing our…
The years have passed. I can no longer deceive myself. The fantasy fades. I am not ageless. Strangely I’m as awestruck by the hymn that opens the Gospel of John as when in my early 20s. That has not changed. In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God, And…
Today is December the 17th, and we approach Christmas. I think about the Christmas story a lot this time of year. I was raised an evangelical Christian believer in the South, so the text of the Bible is in my DNA. I was marinated in the words of the Bible for the first 30…
There are things that cannot be taught in ten easy lessons; they take years of skull sweat. This is treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man’s opinion is as good as another’s. The world is what it is— and doesn’t forgive ignorance. excerpt from Glory Road by…
A man who is of “sound mind” keeps his inner madman under lock and key. —Paul Valery A man of sound mind would not be the individual who occupies the White House. He takes delight in unleashing his inner madman at will on twitter. And I would include a majority in congress and many…
We seekers after knowledge today, we godless ones and anti-metaphysicians, we too continue to take our flame from the fire ignited by a belief which is millennia old, that Christian belief, that God is the truth, that the truth is divine. But what if this self same idea is becoming increasingly incredible, what if…
