Yearly Archives: 2020

Are you wasting time at work researching little known college teams looking for upsets? As a nation we are collectively in love with March Madness! It's great fun, but I…

As President Obama and Congressional Republican leaders prepare to gather for a "Summit" on healthcare, I pause to consider the value of political processes. Let us not lie to ourselves!…

My text for today comes from the final season of NBC's The West Wing. Specifically, I'm quoting from the character Arnie Vinnick, the progressive Republican Senator from California who is…

"But why did those people hurt baby Jesus?" It's a tough question to answer, and I guess that's what I get when I let the Gospel tunes of Johnny Cash…

What exactly is "thanks" or "thankfulness"? Is it a feeling, an emotion, a set of actions, or an attitude? These are harder questions to answer than it might at first…

Let's be honest, many of our nation's sportswriters probably wrote two versions of their game story last Sunday; one for if he won, another for if he lost? This story…

WWTD - What Would Teddy Do? While this question is unlikely to spawn any adolescent evangelical fashion trends, it does have some cache these days. In the wake of the…

My favorite philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, was fond of reminding his fellows and readers that the world has a way of correcting (sometimes brutally) our false ideas. Misjudge a staircase…