There was a day when the world consisted of small villages subsisting on agriculture. Tiny places where everyone knew and were probably related to each other. Education was a rare commodity in such places that even the elite found it difficult to attain. During this period, the most educated within…

I remember watching members of the evangelism team at a local megachurch wandering the streets of Downtown Minneapolis, handing out tracts and praying with people in an attempt to lead them to Christ. …

But it was Putin… In the worst-kept secret this week Evgeni Prigozhin, the recently departed owner of the Wagner Private Army, was killed in a private plane crash. His private jet Embraer was shot down near Moscow. …

Binary Thinking is Killing America! I have a bee in my bonnet. Lately, I have grown increasingly uncomfortable with the plague of binary thinking that pervades our culture. It is literally tearing it apart. We have good and bad, light and dark, red and blue, MAGA and progressive. All these…

A confession I look into the mirror every morning at a beautifully stained cocoa brown face. It is a face I have grown to increasingly appreciate as I age. I have noticed my now-gone hairline, the bags under my eyes from sleep or lack thereof, and my maturing face that…

Let’s not cross the line… According to CNN, an “Oklahoma lawsuit seeks to block opening of first publicly funded religious charter school in the US”. [1] There is this false narrative that religion and public schools should not be separate but interwoven. …

How to make room for the truth … Florida recently shifted their curriculum to change the perception of slavery. Slavery is physical, social, sexual, and financial violence against a person's will. Slavery existed (and still exists in the form of migrant and sexual exploitation of women) for 400 years in…

And the citations are valid!!! I am currently testing Co-Pilot, Microsoft’s integrated AI on my laptop. I am really impressed. I use AI to assist in researching articles, blog posts, and essays. …

Difficult things happen to all of us. It’s part of the creation that God orders for us. Pain is part of life; you can’t avoid it. The United Methodist Church teaches that “suffering begets holiness”. …