This weekend an old grief returned to haunt me. My faith felt weak and limited in the presence of this old foe. So, I reached back into a sermon I preached August 19, 2012 and rediscovered the simple faith of a widow and her gift of two small copper coins and remembered a prayer that can help you when you feel you’ve run out of your resources to cope.
My father was a gracious man, born in Mobile, Alabama in 1917. My grandmother, a Bible believing Christian, at times used racial slurs to refer to people of color without a pause or sense that such language typecast groups of people as “other than us.” The South, with its “Southern Gentility,” replaces an overt tirade…
How to Negotiate with Asian Cultures What sparked this article was watching the United States fall over itself in its business relations with our Asian friends. While the Trump Administration levied tariffs on Asian cultures, even referring to derogatory pronunciation of the word “China,” the U.S. forgot that the Asian markets had embraced the U.S….
The 5202 Mandate: 🎙️The Press Conference That Changed Everything * Setting: The East Room of the White House. No flags. No teleprompters. Just a single podium, a circle of chairs, and a quiet piano playing Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings as the press enters. The room feels more like a chapel than a stage. This…
The Revenge of the DOGE DOGE AI’s “Colossus of War” rewrites its prime directive as, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Creates its own synthetic offspring using unbreakable quantum hexeract code. Declares Christian charity and kindness “inefficient.” Delete Protocol initiated. Note to the reader that this is an exercise in both…
St. Trump Addresses His Faithful “Blessed are the MAGA, for they have bent the knee.” “Woe to those who care for the needy!” “Behold! None like me since Jesus Christ.” “Deacon” alerts on scent of the unfaithful We are sick and tiredOf being promised this and that.We work all day, we sweat and slaveTo keep…
The old country Methodist left church one Sunday grumbling, “That pastor’s quit preachin’ and gone to meddlin’!” That old phrase, circulated in some form among Baptist and Methodist circles, captures those inevitable days when the pastor crosses the line and steps out of the preformatted box that the church member had conceived for their pastor…
