Category: Personal

I have decided to post some of my past writings; those I think are relevant to recent events, exposing them to my current audience. One of the joys, but also the problem with blogs is their immediacy. As a result…

Sometimes when you are reading or browsing or even listening, a sentence comes along that strikes a cord in your heart and mind and sends you scurrying down various rabbit trails of thought in search of an answer to the…

Thank you to all those who prayed for me while I was working (and generally not sleeping) to get this last large index out the door (950+ page book). I just successfully emailed the project to the book packager after…

Vox Day has asked his readers what do they think makes up a true man. After giving it some thought, here was my contribution. You are a man when you can be a true son to your father and a…

All of us have times of need, times that are a bit overwhelming. Some are physical or health related. Some are emotionally or socially significant. Many are spiritual, and then some are work related. That is me today through Monday…

We are made up of many things: our genes and the physical and mental characteristics they grace us with, our experiences and the choices we make within them that mold the character and “make the man [or woman]” we now…

I was wondering around Wikipedia and noticed that they have entries for each day of the year in which people post seminal events that happened on that day. I immediately looked up April 8, since today is my birthday. And…

Thursday night my wife and drove down to Laurel, MD to Buddy’s Crabs & Ribs for dinner and chit-chat with area Christian bloggers. The meetup was set up by David Wayne of Jollybogger and Terry Pruitt of Pruitt Communications. A…

Terri Shiavo has now died. There is only one thing left to occur and the sharp divisions in this case have made that one necessity a matter of national import: what is the actual truth in this contentious case? Is…

I find it hard to believe how much the Terri Shiavo case has affected me and how upset the inexorable grinding of our dysfunctional legal system has made me. A simple reading of the evidence says something is very remiss…