Former U.S. President Donald Trump was up to one of his favorite past times last Wednesday night by phoning Fox News and talking to Sean Hannity live on television. He was ranting again about his outsized grievance against “windmills.” We sane folk know them as wind turbines that increasingly contribute to green energy instead those polluting, coal-fired, power stations that Trump promotes since he is a climate denier. Trump exclaimed to Hannity and his millions of TV viewers,... Read more
After three rounds in the U.S. Open Championship at Torrey Pines (South Course), near San Diego in California, three PGA Tour pros are tied for first place at 5-under par 208: South African Louis Oosterhuizen, American Russell Henley, and Canadian Mackenzie Hughes. Lurking two strokes behind them at 3-under par 210 are long-ball hitter American Bryson De Chambeau, the defending champion, and Ireland’s four-time major winner Rory McIlroy. The U.S. Open is one of golf’s four major tournaments, the others... Read more
There is a movement of people in the U,S., and throughout much of the world, called “anti-vaxxers” in relation to the vaccines now available to protect against the pandemic called COVID-19 that has so far killed 600,000 Americans. Yet people getting the COVID-19 vaccine reduces the chance of other people getting this deadly virus because of it is very contagious, thus easily transmittable for human to human. (See my previous post about “Non-Vaxxer Pro Athletes.” I think anti-vaxxers, who... Read more
Now that Americans have been getting vaccinated for COVID-19 the past few months, there is a movement going on in which people choose not be vaccinated for it, called non-vaxxers.” Some are activist anti-vaxxers. Why? People have different reasons. Some don’t want to risk side effects. But the chance of getting a harmful side effect from a COVID vaccine, especially those administered here in the U.S. such as from Moderna or Johnson and Johnson, is so extremely minimal as to... Read more
Dr. Scot McKnight is a New Testament professor at Northern Seminary near Chicago. He has been one of my closest friends for nearly 29 years. Scot is intellectual, gregarious, witty, and has authored perhaps a hundred books. Scot McKnight is also a lifetime evangelical who knows many, American, evangelical leaders, especially those in the academy. Today, he pens the following, needed, and sobering critique of American evangelicalism in his “Scot’s Newsletter” at [email protected]: The Unmasking of Evangelicalism Scot McKnight Jun... Read more
The two richest men in the world–Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Elon Musk of Tesla–are both on a mission to conquer space. Jeff Bezos announced today that he and his brother Mark will fly next month into space in the first space flight for Blue Origin, a rocket company founded and owned by Jeff. And Musk announced last December that he will fly to Mars, and he predicted the first SpaceX flight to Mars will occur by 2026. In 2002,... Read more
My book, Warrior from Heaven, has an image of Jesus on a throne and riding on bright-shining clouds that are shaped like a cross. When I wrote this book, I hired a New York graphics artist to draw this image that I had sketched out. It’s one of my most favorite outcomes of my literary career. It is based on what Jesus said in his Olivet Discourse. During Passion Week, Jesus and his disciples were on the Mount of Olives... Read more
Foster Friess died last Thursday here in Scottsdale, Arizona, where I live. He was 81 years old. He had been undergoing treatments here at the Mayo Clinic for a blood and bone marrow cancer. The gregarious Foster Friess will be greatly missed by friends. With a name like that, how could you not like Foster Friess. His name always reminded me of when I was growing up in Seattle, my family sometimes would go have an evening treat after... Read more
The Virginia Theological Seminary–an Episcopal Church institution located about 20 miles south of Washington D.C.–has announced a reparations program to pay descendants of hundreds of Black people who were either forced without pay or paid very inadequately, from 1823 to 1951, to build and run this seminary as construction workers, gardeners, cooks, dishwashers, janitors, and laundry workers. Payments will extend to perhaps hundreds of their descendants as genealogists pour through records to determine who is qualified for what will... Read more
China is doing what the Bible says by allowing more and more children per family. For, the Bible says that when “God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1.1 NRSV), he afterwards declared to the first humans, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it” (vv. 26-27). That means populate the earth with humans. Demographers claim that for a nation to just maintain its same number of people year after year, couples must have an... Read more
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