Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789 rather humorously, “In this world nothing is certain, except death and taxes.” That’s right. But what about the next world? Some people don’t think there will be one, but that this life is all there ever will be. Not according to Jesus. Like many Jews of his time, he spoke of “the world-to-come” (Matt. 12.32; Mark 10.30; Luke 18.30; cf. Hebrews 2.5; 6.5) And he believed every human who has ever lived will be there,... Read more
George and Kellyanne Conway Washington attorney George Conway is still at it, ragging on former President Donald Trump. What Republican lawyer in Washington, who was primed to serve in the Trump administration and got rejected, does it more, and perhaps better, than George. Yet he is still married to Kellyanne Conway, the former chief advisor for Donald Trump during his entire presidency. She seemed to have coined the expression “alternative facts” by applying it to Trump’s lies and falsehoods, as... Read more
Yesterday, the new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the plea from eight students at Indiana University claiming the school’s recent vaccination mandate for all students, except those claiming religious objections or having a medical risk, violates their “Constitutional rights.” (But see my post, “Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandates Is Morally Wrong.”) Justice Barrett made the ruling surprisingly without any statement of justification. She could have decided to include the other justices. I guess she deemed it unnecessary,... Read more
It has always been surprising to me that the Bible says Jesus’ brothers didn’t believe in him. Thus, Jesus’ disciples who followed him about during his brief, itinerant ministry, such as the apostles Peter and John, believed Jesus was Israel’s promised Messiah, yet Jesus brothers, and apparently his mother Mary, did not. I wrote a blog post on this, entitled “Jesus and His Unbelieving Relatives.” Dated April 22, 2018, it is really an essay that I did extra work on.... Read more
In 2006, Donald Trump bought 1,000 acres of land near Aberdeen, Scotland through his Trump Organization. He then built a golf course there, later claiming he spent over $140 million on the entire project. In 2014, two years before Donald Trump became the U.S. president, he made a more a similar but more substantial purchase by buying the famed Turnberry golf course and renaming it Trump Turnberry. For a long time, Turnberry has been one of the few golf courses... Read more
The question is still in the air about unvaccinated Bryson DeChambeau and the upcoming, biennial Ryder Cup–the most emotional tournament in golf. It is a series of 28 matches that will be played over three days, beginning September 24, between the twelve best American pro golfers on the PGA Tour and the twelve best players from Europe. This year, the Ryder Cup will be staged at the difficult, championship course Whistling Straights in Wisconsin. The Ryder Cup rotates between being... Read more
Yesterday, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its long-awaited, sixth Assessment Report on global warming caused mostly by humans burning fossil fuels–mainly coal, oil, and natural gas–to produce energy to heat and cool our buildings and motor for transport. This report is most alarming. It says some climate change is now “irreversible for centuries to millennia.” Earth’s atmosphere is now two degrees hotter than it was since the late 19th century, when the Industrial Revolution... Read more
Abraham Ancer won the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational today in a three-way playoff with Sam Burns and Hideki Matsuyama for his first win on the PGA Tour. I sunk a six-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole, the par four 18th hole at the TPC Southland golf course in Memphis, Tennessee. After Ancer calmly rolled his birdie putt in the hole, Sam Burns then putted from six inches closer and on the same line. But his ball curved around... Read more
Donald Trump, in his first campaign for the U.S. presidency, in 2015-2016, was a climate denier who cried out in political rallies, “We’re gonna bring back coal!” When he became president, he rolled back many executive orders and laws that the Obama administration had accomplished for the purpose of reducing emissions, especially in the auto industry which contributes the most to the U.S. causing global warming. In doing so, President Trump set the U.S. back so far in adopting renewable... Read more
PGA Tour star and so-called “mad scientist” Bryson DeChambeau is not as smart as I thought he was. The twenty-seven year old refused to get a COVID-19 vaccination(s), yet he competed in pro golf tournaments all year, including The Open in the UK which, of course, involved the riskier international travel. A week after The Open, held July 15-18, Bryson tested positive for COVID-19. He said nonchalantly, “It was bound to happen…. The odds are you get tested enough, you... Read more
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