Christmas 1942

What a difference a year can make. Only twelve months before the United States and Britain were reeling from massive defeats at the hands of the Japanese. The Pacific was a Japanese lake. The Germans were at the gates of Moscow, and the British army was barely hanging...

Coal for Christmas

The Republican Leadership, the Freedom Caucus, The Republican Study Group and the Trump Adminstration all decided to give non-profits, Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, schools and colleges and thousands of ministries and missions a collective lump of coal this...
Where is Franck?

Where is Franck?

Today the U.S. Supreme Court is arguing about a wedding cake. Is this another sequel in the “Father of the Bride” film series? Where is Franck the wedding planner when we need him? For just a moment let us take a deep breath and ask a defining perhaps a...

The Desperate Race Against Forgetting

We live in the digital information age. There is more information now available on our smart phones than in many of the college libraries of a generation ago. Yet we are in a desperate race against forgetfulness. Each day a bit more of our brain space is captured by...

The Ghosts of Christmas Past: 1941

It was not a merry Christmas. Pearl Harbor was still digging out from the drubbing the Japanese Imperial Navy had delivered to our Navy and Army. The Japanese were running rampant all over Asia, and our Army in the Philippines was being pummeled by crack Japanese...