Arguably the most difficult challenge to our salvation is the call to forgiveness. Be merciful...
In 1896 a German immigrant to the United States, a man named Emmanuel Ninnger, paid for his...
Several years ago, I published an essay for my blog the Gospel Truth that contained my musings on life after death. It created some interesting feedback. My treatment of salvation caused the greatest concern. My main...
The hatred of Jews is manifest once again in the massacre of hundreds of Israelis, including unborn children slashed from their mother’s wombs and beheaded before their parents’ eyes. Equally disgusting are the gleeful...
I struggled over the use of The American Glass… as my title, substituting, A Bad Dream. I finally stuck with my original thought because I am essentially a realist. I do not believe in optimism...
While popular entertainment is usually about teens and other young people finding themselves, getting old is a different story. Many in my generation look back and ruminate on where they have been, what they have done...
In the Gospel of Matthew (22:15-21), Jesus teaches us that he expects us, his disciples, to be consistent, viscerally grateful and of solid integrity. After seeing the embarrassment of the Pharisees as Jesus repeatedly...
I’d imagine that a pet peeve of most organizers of wedding receptions is invited guests who do not respond to invitations one way or another—especially if they then show up anyway for the celebration. Such invitations...
Though the Covid, the nation’s first pandemic in just over a century, may seem like a distant memory, it caused a national stress that reaped an incalculable physical and mental harm on several millions of our people...
Once upon a time there were three friends—Ralph, Reuben, and Roger—down on their luck and searching for work, but without success. Then they finally got very lucky: a wealthy landowner hired them to live on and take...
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