When Noah built his ark, he must have had a lot of critics, skeptics, and scoffers. When they asked Noah why he was building that giant boat, at least at first he likely told them that the God of creation had spoken to him, saying he was angry about the widespread moral corruption of human beings he had made and was going to do something drastic about it. Noah may even have quoted God, who told him, “I have determined... Read more
After years of debate in Virginia’s state legislature, on Wednesday the majestic-looking, bronze statue of Robert E. Lee mounted on a horse, which stood on a raised pedestal in the city of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, was removed and cut into pieces. It is because there has been an awakening of sorts in our nation about honoring past American figures who were complicit in slavery. The movement that arose this spring, called Black Lives Matter, which was a... Read more
On August 8, I posted, “Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandates Is Morally Wrong.” On August 20 I posted, “Catholic Church Not Supporting Religious Exemption for COVID Vaccine Mandates.” Today, I learned that former evangelical pastor Curtis Chang, a consulting faculty member at Duke Divinity School, is the co-founder of “Christians and the Vaccine.” They have many videos explaining that neither Christianity nor the Bible advocates opposition to something like the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for covid that have been... Read more
I was planning to have a booth at my first trade show, and it just got canceled. In October, I was going to have a booth for my patented Triangle Book invention at Printing United Expo in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. It was canceled seven days ago because of the resurgence in this COVID-19 pandemic, which is largely because of the surging Delta variant of it. It is quite a disappointment for me because I’m trying... Read more
Patrick Cantlay capped off his recent victory run by defeating Jon Rahm today by one stroke to win the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta, Georgia. In doing so, Cantlay also won the FedEx Cup, which was worth a bonus of $15 million. It was Cantlay’s sixth PGA Tour win. After winning the BMW Championship last week in perhaps the PGA Tour’s most thrilling playoff–which lasted for six holes against Bryon DeChambeau–Patrick Cantlay, at only 27... Read more
Jesus chose twelve apostles to accompany him in his ministry, and one of them was the apostle John. Three of the four New Testament gospels, including the Gospel of John, do not reveal who wrote them. Plus, in the ancient world, titles often were not affixed to books. Rather, they were known by the first word in the book. Take the first and last books of the Bible; Genesis, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word bereshit, means “in the... Read more
Patrick Cantlay just won the BMW Championship on the sixth hole of sudden-death playoff with Bryson DeChambeau. It was a most exciting tournament with two of the game’s elite stars going head-to-head for so many minutes. DeChambeau had a bunch of chances to win. He started the back nine today one stroke behind leader Cantlay and birdied the first three holes to take the lead. Cantlay kept giving himself a chance. He made clutch putts on the last three holes... Read more
The Gospel of John is my favorite book in the Bible. Although I’m no expert on literature, I believe it is the most masterfully-crafted text I have ever read. But it has been greatly misunderstood, both as to its historical reliability and its identification of who Jesus is. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, major New Testament scholars dismissed the Gospel of John as having no historical credibility. This even included my friend Jimmy Dunn (James D. G. Dunn). They... Read more
You’d think the secretive Cyber Ninjas, who are on a seemingly clandestine mission in Arizona, would be impervious to what they may have thought was a rather innocuous coronavirus for them. Not so. I live in Arizona where the Cyber Ninjas (yes, that is their business name) from Florida have been conducting a recount of votes from the 2020 election. It’s because Republicans control the state legislature here, and they ordered a recount. But these Ninjas have never done this... Read more
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