Month: July 2016

My wife and my mother and I went on a trip to see the grave stones of relatives and be a part of a dedication of the stones for two more members of the family on my father’s side.  While there my mother comments that the...

Before I fell asleep on the airplane today I found this interesting item in a journal from 1951 . Mr. Hughes, an atheist and an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, contends that it is illegal for the institution to permit...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote – We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands...

A portion of Psalm 136 is the Introit for this coming Sunday,  You probably know it for the constant refrain, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endures forever.”  I will be at the convention...

The history of the American Revolution is endlessly fascinating and has been debated and studied and turned into movies.  The stuff that led up to the Declaration was pretty interesting as well.  On July 3, 1775, Washington...