Wake up, you sleeper!

  “So, you should be imitators of God, like dear children. Conduct yourselves in love, just as the Messiah Jesus loved us and gave himself for us, as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice to God… So, don’t get involved in the works of darkness., which all come to nothing. Instead, expose them! The things they…

Intrinsic, Not Extrinsic

  “God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures–in particular, through his image-bearing human beings–but they have all let Him down.” ― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense ~~~ The waitress who brought me my order of eggs and bacon this morning at the Sweetened Sacks of Flour caught…

“Now is the ruler of the world cast out” (Henchmen to follow)

  Patria o muerte! [Homeland or death] Che Guevara, December 11, 1964, 19th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. “Executions?” Guevara told the UN General Assembly in 1964. “We execute! And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary.” “Guevara was a man whose interest in justice is best summed…

Whole Lotta Searchin’ Goin’ On

2016 Proverbs (Observations, generally speaking.):   Astronomers search the universe for cosmic origins. Physicists seek to understand the behavior of systems at atomic length scales and smaller using quantum mechanics. Geneticists, in search of disease prevention and cures, scan the genetic code for the secret of life. Archeologists search fossil and radiometric dating records for what…

Feet First

  On January 17th, 2017, the world will witness a peaceful transition of power in the United States of America.  And though our country is deeply divided by partisan conflicts there will be not be a violent overthrow of the government or a military takeover such as a coup d’etat. There will not be a…