by jeff.sanders | Sep 12, 2022 | Blog
The recent movie “Elvis” just explodes upon the screen, and I felt like I was in a Formula 1 car racing from one scene to the next, watching Elvis Presley rocket into fame. It is an amazing film using animation and regular filming to make you feel like you...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 31, 2022 | Blog
Gorbachev is dead. He was a household word in the mid to late 1980’s. I remember hearing people swoon over him like he was some sort of savior, and others denouncing him as an Antichrist (“was that mark on his head some sort of symbol?” I actually...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 22, 2022 | Blog
It can be real easy to get depressed if you don’t know history. Once again, as we look around our poor old planet, we see tyranny on the march. From Vlad Putin’s legions in Ukraine to Xi Jiping’s threats against Taiwan to corrupt authoritarians in...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 19, 2022 | Blog
Well, I am late to the party, but my wife and I finally went to see this “Top Gun: Maverick” flick. We usually wait until it’s shown in the cheap theatre (you know, where you have to bring your own chair). We’ve been told by several trusted...
by jeff.sanders | Aug 9, 2022 | Blog
We can see many successful nation-states in our world today: France, the United States, and Japan are just a few examples. Sadly our world also shows us quite a few examples of “failed” or even “collapsed” nation-states. According to the book...
by jeff.sanders | Jul 31, 2022 | Blog
The Protestant Reformation was certainly fueled in some part by feelings of nationalism (identifying one’s self as a particular people group known for it’s language, religion, and other geographical and cultural distinctions). The new nationalistic...