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EPISTLE TO THE REMNANT

It’s amazing how we learn even as we age.  Just as you retire and look for that life of leisure, something pops up and bites you in the butt.  Like a pandemic.  Or a revolution.  Something you never dreamed of being a part of.  Now, I’m starting to understand for the first time in my life what’s it life to be a part of a persecuted minority. Oh, I’m a white male in a country that’s 60.9% white (2022 census) and I’m a Christian in...

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy . . .

BONHOEFFER: PASTOR, SPY . . .

For my biography of Deitrich Bonhoeffer, please click here. This movie centers on a famous pastor who lived in Germany’s golden age known as the Third Reich (or Realm.) The previous two Reich’s, according to the Nazis, were the Holy Roman Empire and the half century or so of the German Empire ending with the conclusion of World War I. Acting was good, and most of the film was shot in Ireland. Period effects were as expected. It was over...

Finding living water on a dying planet

FINDING LIVING WATER ON A DYING PLANET

Imagine living a few centuries ago in some part of the world that was absolutely isolated from greater civilization. And this was a part of the world that was also dry and barren. Maybe the area was the Sahara, or the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, or perhaps the Patagonian Desert in Argentina, or the Great Arabian, Australian or American Desert.  And these remote areas exist even until today. All that heat and sand! A third of our planet is desert, and...

32 D, 35’ N; 35 D, 11’ E

The very last book in the Bible is Revelation. Revelation has a well-earned reputation of being highly symbolic in that many people cannot completely understand (even people who have written books about it.) If, while walking down a road you meet someone who claims to understand every single verse and nuance in the twenty-two chapters of this book, you might best just keep walking. The Apostle John did not write the book in some secret, Gnostic or Da Vinci code....

Eve of Destruction

EVE OF DESTRUCTION

“Take a look around you boy, It’s bound to scare you boy.“ July 1965 July 1965 was a cool 75.5 degrees Fahrenheit U.S. wide, much milder than we see today in July. A month earlier on Gemini IV, astronaut Ed White became the first American to “walk in space.”  The U.S. Civil Rights Movement continued to gain steam in America thanks to leaders such as Dr Martin Luther King and the Reverend Ralph Abernathy. A sympathetic President Lyndon Johnson had...

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