Category Archives: General
Adult Confirmation Class 3
After looking around the internet and seeing what pastors, particularly my generation, were posting, I decided that my audio only catechism classes were better than some of them, even the video ones, that sounded liked the biology professor in Wonder … Continue reading
“He who Lives by the Sword Dies by the Sword”
My title is Jesus’ words to Peter in Matthew 26:52, but they are also the 2013 tweet of then Congressman Ron Paul at the murder of Chris Kyle, the most efficient sniper the service has ever seen. I was incensed … Continue reading
Domestic Tranquility, The Trad Wife, or Feminism – The enemy of the female and femininity
Without a doubt Domestic Tranquility [i]is the best book I’ve read on feminism. It’s subtitled “A Brief Against Feminism” because she was a lawyer by training. She was about the same age as Ruth Bader Ginsberg the feminist icon, heroine, and example. She … Continue reading
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Egalitarianism
This is a picture of one of my son’s over 30 years ago in my LBE, Load Bearing Equipment. I’m sure they have other names for this gear now. In fact in the 70s it was called something else too. … Continue reading
What the Devil?
From the above expression of surprise or annoyance, to ‘speak of the devil’, to ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’, to ‘the devil made me do it’, and more, the devil gets a lot of airtime. Below was … Continue reading
Tantamount to Sacrilege
This Good Friday blog had its genesis in my pastor’s remark in a Lenten sermon, but it sprung to life while on a walk somedays later. The first sermonic thought I had had in 15 months. No exaggeration. Before retirement, … Continue reading
Just as I Suspicioned
I heard my mother-in-law say now and again that she ‘suspicioned’ this or that. I always thought that was a made up word. My Merriam-Webster says it is a word though they consider it “chiefly dialectal”. I always liked the word … Continue reading