Since we are enduring another snow—really ice, which is worse—day here in the Queen City, I thought I would resurrect this related essay from February 27, 2004. Over the past two days, more than fifteen inches of snow fell on south Charlotte where I live, encasing everything in a thick, …
The NFL’s “Deflategate” has made headlines over the last few days. On the surface, it seems silly that so much attention is being given to how many pounds per square inch of air some footballs contained during last Sunday’s AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis …
I thought I would post this one just for fun. It’s my “review” of Star Wars: Episode III, which I saw during the late spring of 2005. Of course, I had to find some spiritual lessons in it. While on vacation in Southern California with my family, we were able to attend …
Here is another older essay, one that I wrote at this time of the year in 2005. We are still debating the place of religion in a secular society, and I cannot foresee it ending any time in the near future, since the two sides are about the same percentage …
I penned this essay on Thanksgiving in 2003. It still holds up in terms of what is going on in the world, particularly the continuance of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. For those of us who are not scientists, the Second Law of Thermodynamics can be a brain bruiser. Technically, …
I wrote this at the end of June 2014, and since it has a story built into it, I will republish it here. It is a good example of using a story to make a spiritual point. Two curly-haired children stood in front of their father as he knelt down …
