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Martin Luther and the Storm that Remade the World
I encourage you to attend a celebration on Monday, Oct. 30, of the life and times of Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant Reformation. The event, at the University of Alabama Moody Music Building, begins with a reception and book exhibit at 5 p.m. and follows with a program at 6 p.m. on “The […]
Posted in: Christianity, see also Matters of Faith, History
Mr. Roosevelt and the Navy
April 15, 2018
Part of my summer reading a few years ago was a joint biography of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt written by a brilliant historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin. The book is about the Roosevelts during the World War II (1939-1945) years. It is rich in the details of a peacetime society — ours — preparing for war. […]
Prophecies
April 15, 2018
Today Christians celebrate the transcending moment that changed the world forever. I can assure you I am not talking of politicians, ideologies, liberty, diversity, sexual peccadillos, race, gender and other man-driven issues and problems that dog our world. One Sunday, more than two thousand years ago, prophecies from the Old Testament about the coming and […]
Posted in: Christianity, see also Matters of Faith, Prophecies
Capitalists and Socialists
April 15, 2018
Putting all other categories aside for the moment—like sexists, misogynists, identity politics, me tooers, supremacists (of all colors), and a dozen or so others hurled around these days in the media—it seems that fundamentally this country has crossed the old taboo boundary between capitalism and socialism. Since the nation was created we are and have […]
Posted in: Politics
Leaders and Followers
April 15, 2018
I first remember hearing about leaders and leadership in general while in NROTC in college many years ago. I had never thought much about it, but our naval officer profs zeroed in on the subject and told us this is what we were being trained to do: be leaders. Recently, in the church I attend […]
Posted in: Leadership
The Age of the Old Guy
April 13, 2018
Ok, I’m not being sexist here. The title could be the Age of the Old Girl. Old Lady sounds like a sitcom line from a comedy of years ago. Old Person sounds so impersonal and antiseptic. Old Human Being might be the choice of the super sensitive, modern Progressive, but they’re not writing this. I […]
Posted in: Culture, Life in America
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- James 1:19“[Listening and Doing] My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,”
May 14, 2018
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