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A Night To Remember

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

There’s something about Madison Square Garden that draws attention.  I could not help but notice it several months ago when Deena and I were in NYC.  It is often the site of national political party conventions such as it was in 1976, 1980, 1992 and 2004, and it also serves as a sporting venue.  In 1971, the “Fight of the Century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier was held in the Garden.  Today, the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers keep the...

LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS

LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS

This afternoon I plopped on the couch while my wife Deena was watching a rally where former President Barak Obama was speaking. It was in Wisconsin, that he was just concluding his remarks. The repeated rounds of applause were positively thunderous. As he was about to introduce Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz (D), Bruce Springsteen’s voice could be heard in the background singing “Land of Hope and Dreams.” Springsteen has always been a favorite musician of mine, at least since “The...

Do not believe every spirit.

DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY SPIRIT

The World Population Clock estimates that there are almost 8.2 billion souls on Earth.  No doubt, it uses a simple algorithm weighing births against deaths and showing a net gain over time.  But is that the end of it?  Are things as simple as that?  In his famous work, Paradise Lost, poet John Milton (1608-1614) wrote: Of course, just because the famous muse penned this doesn’t mean that it is true.  Yet, each of the two testaments in the Bible seems to suggest that there was more than...

SECOND AMENDMENT BLUES

If you follow my blog, you’ve already read this post. And, regretably, you’ll see it again and again in the coming weeks and months. Just with different photos, the names of different schools, or towns, and the different number of dead and wounded. Talk to your elected representatives and senators, or those running for Congress. Democrats in Congress would be very eager to speak to you about banning assault weapons. The’ve been trying to to this for decades! Before Uvalde...

Ballots, not bullets

BALLOTS, NOT BULLETS

It’s been barely four hours since the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump while he addressed a rally in Butler, PA, a small town with a population of barely 15,000 people. At the moment, we know that the shooter is dead as well as an attendee at the rally. Two more attendees were critically injured. But we know nothing about the identity or motive of the shooter. Those who follow my blog know that I am not enthusiastic about Mr....

Lyin' Eyes

LYIN’ EYES

Super Tuesday, the biggest political event in the presidential primary season is upon us. If past is prologue, expect a greater turnout among people who identify as republican than those who identify as democrat.  Expect a large evangelical turnout. Expect that Nikki Haley, for all her grit and gumption will lose every event on Tuesday.  And expect that many self-described but utterly discredited “prophets” will dust off their failed predictions of 2020 to state what is clear to most Americans already:  That Donald...

A TODOS NOS DUELE A VECES

I was listening to REM’s song “Everybody Hurts Sometimes” (A Todos Nos Duele A Veces) the other night. It put me in a reflective, almost somber mood.  I stared at this photo of a young Latina in custody at the U.S. border.  She no doubt has overwhelming problems and pain, as do other young people in America. I tried to put myself in her shoes to understand how she feels. She cannot leave the facility in which she is warehoused.  She cannot leave...

GIVING TO CAESAR WHAT IS CAESAR’S

There is a news story in the most recent issue of National Review (NR) that caught my eye. I’m sure that many of you might have seen it yourselves if not there, then elsewhere. The headline on the NR article is: “Former Kentucky Clerk Ordered to Pay $260,000 in Legal Fees after Refusing to Issue Marriage License to Same-Sex Couples.” Kim Davis was the former County Clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, and she was elected to be the clerk in...

THE USES OF CHILDREN IN WAR: A BRIEF HISTORY

For a blog that began primarily as a discussion of different topics in Christianity, I’ve branched out over the years to include other areas of interest (such as travel, current events, heath, literature, history, science and politics.)  I’ve also translated some posts into Chinese, Russian or German.  I don’t believe this has come at the expense of my original focus.  Someone who visits my blog to learn about Europa or the Chinese New Year may come across an appeal to experience a new...

Cause and effect

CAUSE AND EFFECT (NSFW)

Hamas is playing with fire. They sowed the wind and now they and the people with whom they shield themselves are reaping the whirlwind. This example of cause and effect appears in the Bible in Hosea 8:7 where the prophet writes: “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.” There is a reaction to every action, a response to every stimulus. This is Newton’s Third Law. Or Skinner’s principle of operant conditioning. Hamas just pushed the wrong lever. This is...

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