Some of the things that Jesus said we’re not completely sure what he meant.  These tend to create interesting Bible study discussions, inspire authors to write thought-provoking books, and academics to launch into debates.  One of these is a short statement that Jesus seems to throw in at the end

“One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.” – Zhou Enlai On Monday of this week, millions of Americans enjoyed a day off of work and out of school to honor their U.S. presidents – past and present.  If the quote above from

Be careful about making friends with a xenophobe.  Every two or three weeks I have a conversation with a woman who has become a dear friend of mine – she is also an out-of-the-closet racial xenophobe.  She isn’t flamboyant about it in any way it is just a part of

Speak to your children, to the young, and even to the old of beauty and it will awaken their souls and open their eyes to the truth of things. It is the blind, deadened soul that sees all things as subjective, relative, and interchangeable with each other.  When beauty and

A longer and more precise rewording of the title could be, “Saul & How Kings & Governments Get Their People to Murder For Them.” How does one person murder hundreds, thousands, or even millions of other people? They get other people to do it for them, often lots of other

This might upset some folks at the beginning, but it is important and headed to a good place. Identity politics is quite the rage these days.  I think it is well intentioned but doesn’t lead to the place its adherents long for. Identity politics is the trend in viewing and

Life is going to have its hardships and its troubles.  It just is.  But there are things we can do to add to our troubles and difficulties in life.  There are places where we hang out, where trouble is more likely to find us. One of the most well-known stories

The soul needs silence and stillness.  It is when we are doing nothing that our brains and souls do some of their most important somethings.  We can find these moments when we are doing a quiet little something or really and truly nothing at all. It is in the quiet

[Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system.  More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged

I heard a wonderful story a while back from the competitive shooting world. Like other sports, there are few people who can bring together all of the qualities necessary to compete at the highest levels of the competitive shooting world.  And in this case I’m specifically meaning pistol shooting.  You