People love underdogs. I think they embody in human life the need for “the system” to be shaken. They also show that with enough perseverance, grit, and talent, the lowly may rise, and the mighty may fall. Much of the…
Recently when I was teaching a class and reviewing the Ten Commandments, when we went over the word “covet”, either for “your neighbor’s wife” or “your neighbor’s goods”, I was sad to find that most thought “covet” meant “cheat”. In…
Out of the UK last week was an interesting piece on a statistically significant decline in illness and hospitalization in the town of Frome, in the County of Somerset, England. What is the reported cure? Socialization. Social isolation in an…
The band Foster the People suddenly shot into prominence onto the national and international scene in 2011 with the releasing of their album Torches, and especially their hit single Pumped Up Kicks, which along with Helena Beat (even achieving a place in the popular 2012…
Today the Nation, and indeed the world, mourns the loss of the Reverend Billy Graham, “America’s Pastor”, and arguably the voice of American Christianity. Born in November 1918, a few days before the end of the First World War, the young…
February is the cruelest month…(to me, anyway) I am a huge fan of poetry, and arguably my favorite 20th century poet is the great T.S. Eliot. This time of year, when the sun gets warmer and the days longer here…
What do Julius Caesar, the Popes, Francis Bacon, Galileo, President Thomas Jefferson, St. Jerome, JK Rowling, Friedrich Nietzsche and Mark Zuckerberg all have in common? …They all studied Latin at some point in their lives, the majority to quite an…
In Principio Erat Verbum… Thus begins the famous Incipit of the Prologue of the Gospel of John. As theologically profound as that may be, it also is on many other levels. We greet, bid farewell, amuse, console, and instruct with words. Words…