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Social Justice
“Social Justice.” What is it? What does it mean? Modern Woke warriors think they invented it to describe their goals and ideologies. Alas, like most things in this world, it is not new, nor particularly inventive, clever, or brilliantly conceived by the Woke world. Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us that “What has been will be again, […]
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Of Doctors, Pilots and Equity
August 12, 2022
Let’s start out with a simple decision most of us have to make at one time or another. I don’t know about you, but if I am flying or having surgery, I want someone qualified by training and ability to handle the cockpit or the scalpel. I certainly don’t want someone who is there because […]
Bartolomé de las Casas and Pope Francis
July 28, 2022
Pope Francis is not the first apologist of the Roman Catholic Church to bend the knee before American indigenous peoples in such a dramatic fashion as we saw on his visit recently. He wasn’t even the most articulate or demanding Catholic clergyman to do so, even being a member of the distinguished Jesuit Order, among […]
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Quid omnes tangit debet
June 7, 2022
I thought I would sound erudite and educated in the old-fashioned way today and try out some Latin on you. We’re all familiar with e pluribus unum but how many know what it means? Not too long ago I ran into Quid omnes tangit debet while working on the iconic Dominican priest Bartolomé de las […]
Posted in: History
There’s a Hispanic Living in My House
May 17, 2022
Years ago, when growing up in Lima, Peru I knew more or less that I was a little gringuito. That’s gringo in the diminutive or little gringo. If you still don’t know what a “gringo” is, that’s what we Americans are called in Latin America. It’s a common term in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world […]
Posted in: Hispanics and Latinos
White Racists, 2022 Update
April 20, 2022
White Racists, 2022 Update Over the past several years, the University of Alabama’s Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion vigorously denied it teaches white racism is inevitable, endemic, and cannot be changed. But is this what they teach? A couple of summers ago DEI at UA hosted a “common read” of the New York Times […]
Posted in: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, History
What Were You Doing in 1965?
April 8, 2022
What Were You Doing in 1965? Over the past few months, I have read a lot of newspaper articles—most on the front pages—about the marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. In fact, I didn’t read much more in my local newspaper other than articles celebrating Black History Month. Which is fine. This is, after […]
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The Truth Be Known: Education in Alabama
March 22, 2022
Two articles appeared recently (Feb.-March 2022) in The Tuscaloosa News, and both examined, directly and indirectly, the state of education in Alabama. A third article was published in 2019 in which Alabama was ranked next to last in the US News and World Report ranking of best and worst states. This latter ranking looked at […]
Posted in: Education
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- Isaiah 26:4 October 6, 2026“Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.”
September 2, 2022
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