Evil is a concept foreign to many in our world today. When bad things happen, many times there is an effort to explain why such events occur. Some reasons given…
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While reading about the 1890s yesterday, I came across one of the great inspirational speeches in America’s history. On July 9, 1896, a former congressman from Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan,…
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Last week, I wound up at a hospital for children. So you ask, why would a septuagenarian, a twice retired teacher and present preacher, go to a place where children…
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Growing up in a rural area of north central Missouri, travel overseas was not part of my plans for the future. We were farmers, and had no one in our…
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According to The Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter isn’t a hate group. Originally, I had intended this blog to be about Black Lives Matter, but as I looked…
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President Trump has been roundly criticized for his initial comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia because he decried the hatred on “many sides” and did not specifically call out…
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I am tired, tired of being blamed and shamed by the left for being white. I was born in 1947, 84 years after the Emancipation Proclamation effectively made every black…
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July 30, 2017, will always be remembered by five individuals associated with America’s pastime, baseball. On that day, in Cooperstown, New York, five men, players Tim Raines, Pudge Rodriquez, and…
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In the Presidential contest last year, one candidate railed against the ubiquitous regulations that cripple the ability of Americans to succeed in starting and maintaining businesses. That claim resonated with…
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A growing trend of secularism in the United States has taken on frightening dimensions in the past few years. While there have always been those who opposed the incursion of…
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