There are many many caves and sinkholes in Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is in Kentucky, and not far from there a giant sinkhole opened up and swallowed a whole bunch of vintage Corvettes at the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green. I even went to see the hole in the floor of the museum and see the car a good 30 down below the floor of the museum. Yikes! So this recent story by Jeannie Moos (who is a veteran in dealing... Read more
With protests still going on all over the U.S. over the overturning of Roe v. Wade, one despairs of having a reasonable conversation about abortion in such a heated environment. And there is no doubt that the issue is complex. Many of the arguments both pro and con are specious. For example, the notion that an unborn child is simply another part of a woman’s body and she should be able to do with it as she likes, as if... Read more
While Sooley is John Grisham’s first basketball novel, it is his fourth sports themed novel, and the most recent one. I actually picked up a copy at a good bookstore in Izmir, Turkey while leading a tour, and of the sports novels this is best of the bunch. It is first rate beach reading, and it has a social conscience as well about what has been and continues to be happening in south Sudan, with millions starving, partly due to... Read more
9/21/1975– On Sin In considering the question of sin, we are faced with two startling facts. The first fact is that human beings make so little of sin. To some it’s an illusion, a religious mirage, or the invention of some fanatic. it is denied, joked about, and laughed at by many. Many who believe sin to be a fact, continue to sin with little thought of its penalty. The second fact is that God makes so much of sin.... Read more
9/14/1975— On Faith The statement ‘the just shall live by faith’, is a statement of Christian principle. It is found four times in Scripture. In Habakkuk we see the difference between the lives of the just and the unjust. The unjust are puffed up and live by their own self-sufficiency, but the just live by faith. Their confidence is in their God. To them, faith is more than a philosophy of life, it is the very principle of life. The... Read more
Well the Thor saga has taken another strange turn I never saw in the Marvel comics, but that’s o.k. We get to see our full money’s worth of Hemsworth, Natalie Portman as Jane Foster (Thor’s former girlfriend), some cameos (all too short and not funny enough) of the Guardians of the Galaxy, another cameo, this time by Matt Damon as an Asgaardian actor, and another primo performance by an almost unrecognizable Christian Bale (he must have been in makeup for... Read more
9/7/1975— On Prayer Prayer is as old as humankind, as universal as religion, and as instinctive as breathing. It is practiced in some form by people of all faiths. prayer springs from the heart with a need, a need greater than human ability to cope with. Prayer is our acknowledgment of a being higher than ourselves. Most people try to pray, yet so few know how. There are two kinds of prayer, the prayer that does not reach God and... Read more
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