…that the Indian prime minister, Morarji Desai drank a glass of his own urine daily and lived to be 99 years old? …that his daily intake of fluids had nothing to do with his long life? …that Gibbon tells us that the church in Antioch consisted of 100,000 people in a city that had 500,000 […]
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Leave a Comment (Enough is enough. Today two more 6-year old students in Maryland were suspended for pretending to throw rocks at each other on the playground. It’s about time we got serious about the violence that rocks (especially assault rocks) play in our society and we must act now. I have a suggestion. If we are really […]
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Leave a Comment (Each Wednesday I publish one of my old columns that I hope will be informative, interesting, and at times, inspiring. The following column was written in 2007: A ruggedly handsome, elegantly dressed man sits at his table in an expensive San Francisco hotel restaurant casually opening his morning mail. Slitting open a plain envelope, his […]
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Leave a Comment (My column, “Can Christianity Today and Chuck Colson Handle the Truth About MLK?” was totally on target, without error. In fact, almost all my charges were supported by King’s people in Atlanta, King’s very friendly biographer, King’s best friend, FBI tapes, etc. However, my column was politically incorrect. But then, I thought the media, especially […]
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Leave a Comment (Each Thursday I will use one of my “Did You Know?” columns that have been so popular in my monthly “Preacher Helps.” Did You Know…. …that in 1990, the University of Arizona poison control center treated a man who was bitten on the tongue while kissing a rattlesnake? …that no matter how dumb you feel […]
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Leave a Comment (Each Wednesday I publish one of my old columns that I hope will be informative, instructive, insightful, and sometimes inspirational. Following is a column from 2008. My new, brief eBook, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Judged by His Character, Not His Color! is now available at Amazon.com for $3.99. Martin Luther King’s statement that a person should be judged by his […]
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Leave a Comment (I read the June issue of Christianity Today with some pleasure after filtering out the New Evangelical drivel that is often spouted on various pages. As an Independent Baptist Fundamentalist who advocates “responsible, biblical militancy,” I would obviously disagree with the loosey-goosey theology, lack of ecclesiastical separation, lack of promotion of godly living, etc. However, […]
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Leave a Comment (Every Wednesday I publish an old column that I hope will be interesting, informative, instructive, and inspiring at times. Today’s column was published in 2008. Left-wing liberals are bad news for any nation while informed conservatives are a bright spot in a dark, dismal, and decadent day. That spot is brighter when those conservatives are […]
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Leave a Comment (Governments have almost unlimited power but they don’t have unlimited authority. British author, G. K. Chesterton, had lunch with Alexander Woollcott at a London restaurant discussing various issues ending with the difference between authority and power. Chesterton opined, “If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great […]
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Leave a Comment (Each Wednesday I publish one of my early columns that I hope will be informative, instructive, and maybe inspirational. This column was published early this year. Some highly respected doctors seemed to validate our suspicions about quack doctors when they declared after the Sikh shootings in Wisconsin, that gun violence is a social disease! I […]
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