Try to Imagine
149 October 17, 2023 You live in a crowded wasteland. It’s so dry that you can’t grow a garden without extra water, if you can find it. Your family and neighbours are crammed into houses and apartments with over two million others. Mainly in two cities, squeezed into a strip of desert about six miles […]
The High Price of Ignorance
October 20, 2023 For four years I’ve taught a ten-week course at the Seniors’ Center titled How We Got the Bible. It’s been a great way for me to stay sharp and in-touch with reality. There are usually about a dozen folks, varying in background from atheists to Christian fundamentalists. A wonderful challenge. It’s fact based, […]
Try to Imagine
149 Oct. 17, 2023 You live in a crowded wasteland. It’s so dry that you can’t grow a garden without extra water, if you can find it. Your family and neighbours are crammed into houses and apartments with over two million others. Mainly in two cities, squeezed into a strip of desert about six […]
Grandma’s Universal Secret to Survival
150 (Oct 22, 2023) There’s a story in today’s paper about an Israeli grandmother who’s being hailed as a hero for fooling the Hamas invaders long enough that the army could to arrive and kill them. She had gone to the shelter with others in her small town but went back to her […]
High as a kite, Low as a worm
152 November 8, 2023 There’s just over two weeks before my two-book launch. These are my fifth and sixth books on Amazon, but the first time I’ve had the nerve and strength to do some marketing. It’s truly a ‘Coming-out party’ for me. A really big deal. For the first time, I’m handing out invites to […]
Everyone’s not like me. Yeah! Darn!
153 November 15, 2023 As I’m beginning to share my last two books with people, something that I’ve rarely done with my first books, I’m noticing that it’s usually impossible to predict people’s reaction, unless I’ve talked with them before concerning similar topics. It’s natural that I would hope and even expect people who are close […]
J.D. and others: Please Get Your Lives Together
156 Nov. 29 I write this in reaction to my double book launch of yesterday, and the many who weren’t there to celebrate with us. J.D., I hope you don’t mind me using you as a way to focus on a reality that most of our culture share: […]
A Matter of Perspective: You Choose
158 Dec. 3, ’23 There are two lenses through which we view our existence. We are either worms or potential giants. In most of our experiences we are treated as the former. We are cogs in a wheel among innumerable other wheels. Our votes don’t really count. Conform. Don’t rock the boat. Don’t talk […]
The God of Bread or the God of the Sword – Which?
159 Dec. 4 We’re a complicated and inconsistent bunch. We want to be coddled and taken care of, yet we yearn for freedom and independence. We seek to control others even though we take offence when others do the same. Instinctively, we try to make God, however named, into our own image. Because we instinctively […]
The Underlying Truths of Christmas
160 Dec. 8, ’23 If you’ve followed my stuff, you know how I challenge tradition. I guess that’s my traditional way to find the truth. For all tradition was founded by truth. It may have not been an historical fact, but a Truth, never-the-less. Take our Christmas traditions. Are they based upon historical facts? Probably […]
