Winging It

Side Note: It is June 30th. I know I warned earlier that I'd be going offline when Blogger switched to their new operating system, and t...

We humans have a very common tendency. We tend to "think more highly of yourself than you ought." (Rom 12:3) Oh, we can be very su...

We all know the verse: "We walk by faith, not by sight." (2 Cor 5:7) And we get it. Paul wrote about "if the tent that is our...

Lots of news this week, and not all COVID or BLM. Hate Crime Nooses were found hanging from trees around Oakland's Lake Merritt; the...

The current battle in America today is around the concept of institutional or systemic racism. The battle is so large that it is spilling ov...

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are ...

Maybe you haven't heard the term, "cancel culture." You've certainly seen the idea in action. According to Dictionary.com ...

On Father's Day Sean Williams trotted out his organization called "The Dad Gang." Mostly white neighbors in his Long Island n...

Just a thought here. As we all know, the "conservative" SCOTUS voted recently to redefine "sex" without any consensus fr...

A day set aside for dad's. Not so sure that's popular anymore, but I'm only sorry there aren't more. It's interesting th...

Not Getting It There are more than a few sports teams with names like "Indians," or "Braves," or "Redskins" -...

Generally speaking, I am not a man given to emotional outbursts. I think those who know me best would concur. Sometimes, though ... When m...

Back in March, NPR put out a story that assured us that increased testing would reveal more U.S. COVID-19 cases. I mean, it seems completel...

You all know about Apologetics, the defense of the faith. We take the term from the "go to" verse, "In your hearts honor Chri...

We have a hard time correctly evaluating "harm" and, as such, have a hard time using it as a determining basis for "moral....

I saw the video of a police officer kneeling on the neck of a man for almost 9 minutes, killing the man, and I was horrified. Why? Because t...

I've used the terms "orthodoxy" and "orthopraxy" before. The first refers to right thinking and the second to right ...

Change George Floyd was buried this week amid bowed heads, signs of the cross, or raised fists. The protests have continued. If we say it ...

My first blog entry -- my entry into blogging -- was June 20, 2006. Originally it was called "Birds of the Air" and was intended t...

The best known verse in the Bible these days is Matthew 7:1. "Judge not that you be not judged." Oh, they take it way out of conte...