Monthly Archives: April 2016
When I heard Ted Cruz was evoking the image of solitary five year old in a public restroom I was flabbergasted. Does he really let a five year daughter old go into a public rest room alone? Fathers, both single fathers and fathers on father-daughter excursions, have to take their young children with them to the rest room just like moms do, don’t they? The image was concocted to counter objections to a law in North Carolinaspecifying how to choose…..
“…our children will go forth and pluck the lovely red blossoms of courage, and generosity, the beautiful blue flowers of truthfulness and kindness, and the white purity of the divine “Lily of the Valley” — thus they find the heritage of the Narragansett fathers and mothers, and loyalty to our country in their own back yard.” Princess Red Wing in the Narragansett Dawn, as recorded in Dawnland Voices The impact of the First Nation People is everywhere just beneath the surface if…..
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self. The speaker about courage is Pastor Des Wadsworth who has not written any books (yet). However, he is from England, a culture that knows a thing or two about a stiff upper lip. If you have written a book that you believe people outside your family and friend circle will want to read, you must think of your potential readers and how much they will miss out on…..
The Latin translates to the Joy of Love, and it was released on Friday. It clocks in at 263 pages. The news media focuses on “rules” that weren’t changed to make popular first world stuff ok. They miss the boat. I hope everyone reads the original, downloadable here. I recognize no one has time. The document is 325 paragraphs. Read one paragraph a day and you’ll have it done within a year. This document is ground-breaking, inspirational, and potentially church…..
What are we fighting for? “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.” John Winthrop Senior, 17th Century John Winthrop Senior was the new governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony when he made this statement. His ship was about to sail for the new world carrying the Great Migration, a set of people fleeing a mandatory state religion that persecuted them. However, when he arrived, they set up a new mandatory…..
He is an OUTSIDER. He doesn’t fit —for example not pro-life or pro-choice pre-molded positions. He actually uses his brain cells. He doesn’t get it right on the first try but he listens. Eventually he’ll make a good deal. Think about the furor over his latest abortion comments. He has shown the hollowness of BOTH positions in a few brief sentences. First, he pondered that there needed to be some form of punishment, and that surely that would include the…..