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How sad I was recently to read the public post from former Nebraskan Senator and President of the University of Florida, Ben Sasse, who announced the following: “Friends, This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to
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Oh, friends… there is a heaviness so many of us share. What’s happened in Minnesota has been awful. People have been killed. Trust in law enforcement has eroded. Churches are being targeted. Fear is rampant. Anger is rampant. Temperatures are rising even in the cold. This is not good
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I’m not quite sure how to wisely deal with all the expectations around silence — who should speak, when they should speak, and how loudly they should do it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
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Sometimes I wonder if we just become softies as we age. Okay, I’ll speak for myself. Sometimes I wonder if I’m becoming a softie because my edge is wearing off. Things that never made me cry before can now open the floodgates. Things that used to rattle me
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I’m not one who has ever had a lot of pet peeves in life. I’m just not that easily irked. But if I had to come up with something that I find mildly more irritating than perhaps others do, it would be the number of times after a
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It certainly has been a lively news cycle. In fact, the word “lively” simply doesn’t do it justice. There’s been seemingly a ton of significant activities and events. For example… … the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro… … the ICE shooting in Minneapolis… … the crackdown by the Iranian government
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Dusk was setting in on my Wednesday late afternoon drive. It’s a path I take multiple times weekly, near to my home. I take backroads behind some local suburban businesses to pick up my son from work, roads with a speed limit of no more than 30 m.p.
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What a wild world we live in. It’s no wonder more and more people admit to keeping their “head in the sand.” When it comes to paying attention to the socio-economic-political landscape, the stories can feel overwhelming—full of contradictions and inconsistencies. One year a person is
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Wow. Unquestionably, a major event occurred early Saturday morning. The United States conducted what it described as a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela, resulting in the capture and arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. The first federal charges against Maduro were unsealed by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2020.
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We’ve long averred that the word “fascinating” is an absolute wonderful word. Why? Because it doesn’t imply good nor bad; it simply means whatever is described as such irresistibly draws our attention — kind of like a car crash or a sunset or a car crash during a sunset.
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We’re doing something a little different today. Maybe it’s the start of resolution crafting for the year to come. Maybe not. But it is indeed good. As has been discussed here previously, when we moved South some years ago, two of the wisest people I know (unrelated to
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It’s no secret that the Intramuralist is a big believer in Christmas. But allow me to briefly share what I am a little more a believer in… For centuries people were desperately craving, waiting for a king. They were looking for one who could bring justice, freedom and peace