I am blessed with having some wonderful nerds in my life.  They love numbers and working with numbers to help them understand and explain the world. [It is the second week of July 2020.  Last week (see “Black Power & Little Micah“) I started writing about race and current events

I was stunned when I first heard it some years ago, but in a number of variations, I hear it far more frequently these days – “Black people don’t have power.” It is typically well-intentioned white people that say things like this, but I find it blatantly inaccurate, demeaning, disrespectful,

Perhaps you will remember learning in school about the famed 1925 circus of a court proceeding commonly referred to as the “Scopes Monkey Trial.”  I believe it is the most famous trial in American history regarding whether or not Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution should be taught in public school

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

Earlier this week I posted a write up I did on what the Qur’an says, based on my first reading of the Qur’an (That I might have better titled, “My First Reading of the Qur’an”).  You can read that HERE. The post sparked a conversation on Facebook with one of

When someone says that they do or do not trust someone, they are making a statement about their belief in either someone’s competency, their character, or both. Competency is someone’s ability to do a particular thing and to do it well. Someone’s character is their commitment to do what is

Part 3 of 4 – What the Blue Team is Missing (read Part 1 HERE) While the Blue Team does a great job of recognizing the role that moral agency or free will plays in the violence in our society, works to protect the sanctity of human life from those