A win, that is, as in many $$$ signs and social consciousness. Nike just announced the online sales of its products have increased 65% since it came out with its marketing campaign this year making Colin Kaepernik the face of its ten-year celebration logo–JUST DO IT! It was a bold and controversial decision. Many people thought it was a mistake and that Nike would suffer financially for it. In case you have been absent from this planet lately, and thus... Read more
A major theme of the Gospel of John in the Bible’s New Testament is that it relates incidents in which Jesus was asked who he was. For example, Jesus was asked, “Who are you?” “Who do you claim to be?” “If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly” (Jn 8.25; 8.53; 10.24). Sometimes, he answered (Jn 10.24-30; 18.33-38; cf. Matt. 26.63-64). One such incident is recorded in John 8. (Bible quotations are from the NRSV unless otherwise noted). We read that... Read more
Keegan Bradley finally won his fourth PGA Tour tournament after a six-year drought. He defeated Justin Rose on the first extra hole in a sudden-death playoff to win the BMW Championship. The rain-plagued event had to go an extra day–to Monday. Both players finished regulation 72 holes on the Aronimink Golf Club just outside Philadelphia at 20-under par 260 total. On the first extra hole, the par four, 463-yard, uphill, 18th hole, both players hit their second shots onto the... Read more
In the four New Testament gospels, Jesus never claimed to be God. Twice he was accused of indirectly doing so. Many Trinitarian Christians are wrongly taught that those Jews who so accused Jesus were right in doing so. John 5.18 relates that Jews thought of Jesus was “making himself equal to God.” But their basis for thinking this was that “he was not only breaking the sabbath” for healing someone on the sabbath, “but was also calling God his Father.”... Read more
As I posted right before Donald Trump took office as the U.S. president, the man does not seem to believe in our democratic form of government. He seemed to have proved it again today. He spoke to The Daily Caller about Nike’s recent decision to make former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick the poster guy of their 30th celebration of their ad campaign, “Just Do It.” As most Americans know by now, in 2016 Colin Kaepernick had bent down... Read more
Bryson DeChambeau just won the Dell Technologies Championship on the PGA Tour by two strokes over Justin Rose. Moreover, it was his second consecutive win in the second of the four-tournament, season-ending FedEx Cup Playoffs. And it surely gives him a place on the U.S. Ryder Cup team for those soon-coming playoffs. It is also his fourth win on the PGA Tour in only 70 events, not bad for a guy who is 24 years old. If Bryson DeChambeau keeps... Read more
Tiger Woods is a friend of U.S. President Donald Trump. Over the past several years, they have played numerous rounds of golf together and had meals together. Many Americans now think President Trump is racist, including leading, black, sports figures such as the NBA’s LeBron James and Stephon Curry and many NFL players who disagree with President Trump about not standing at the playing of the national anthem prior to games as a silent protest to mistreatment of U.S. black... Read more
Months ago, the U.S. President Donald Trump administration stopped providing tens of millions of dollars in financial aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency which assists Palestinian refugees who have lived for decades in UN refugee camps for Palestinians. Then, months ago the Trump administration overthrew decades of past U.S. policy by acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s legitimate capital and moving the U.S. Embassy there from Tel Aviv in defiance of international norms and according to the wishes of Israel’s... Read more
I’ve lived in Arizona for nearly twenty years now. Our U.S. Senator John McCain died yesterday at age 81 after suffering from brain cancer. He became a war hero during the Vietnam War as a fighter pilot when the plane he was piloting was shot down. He suffered broken bones and then much torture as a POW for the next 5.5 years, which included two years in solitary confinement. When the Vietnamese learned that his father was a Navy Admiral,... Read more
Bryson DeChambeau just won his third PGA Tour tournament–the Northern Trust–to take the lead in the FedEx Cup Playoffs as the first of four successive tournaments. The unorthodox, twenty-four year old is surprising a lot of PGA Tour armchair quarterbacks, including myself. DeChambeau has all of his irons the same length and lies, which hitherto has been unheard of and unseen unless somebody from a psychiatric ward has done it before. But I will say one thing in Bryson’s favor... Read more
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