I begin this piece by asking what you plan to do at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Will you stop to pause and remember the significance of that time some ninety years ago? Will you stop to pause and perhaps hear the bells of the church tolling in remembrance […]
Harry Patch died two weeks ago; he was buried on August 6th. Now, unless you are like me and you listen to the BBC, you probably don’t know who Harry Patch was. He certainly wasn’t important but then again, his death does have some significance. He was the last surviving British veteran of World War […]
Here are my thoughts for the 2nd Sunday in Easter. The Scriptures for today are Acts 4: 32 - 35, 1 John 1: 1 - 2: 2, and John 20: 19 - 31. This is also a political piece but the times demand it.
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For as long as I can recall, I have considered myself a […]
The post on my own blog with this title (Thoughts From The Heart on The Left) is for this coming Sunday but I think that it needs to be on this blog as well. I have posted a link to the entire piece so that you can continue reading it there (besides, I added a […]
Was Pat Robertson right when he called for the American government to “whack” Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, back in 2005. Of course not. But ever since that flair up on the border with Columbia recently, I have been more and more concerned with having such a loose canon in our own backyard.
The […]
Cross-posted at New Covenant:
In September of 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their Corps of Discovery up the Missouri River into country controlled by the Teton Sioux who acted, essentially, as river pirates. On the 23rd of the month, the Corps of Discovery made first contact with the tribe. Tension was high between the […]
The 2006 $@&%&%#^*^# Stockholm Conference!
Rachel Neuwirth writes for American Daily …
After a month of military action in Lebanon pitting Israel against Hezbollah, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1701. A cessation of hostilities was reached in mid-August, 2006, and two weeks later a conference was held in Stockholm to specifically raise funds for the reconstruction […]
