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Smith Recreation Center as Early Voting Site for Primary: Fear and Anger
29 December 2019 My wife and I recently watched a movie titled The American President. Michael Douglas plays the role of President Andrew Shepherd. In a press briefing near the end of the movie, Douglas makes this statement regarding his reelection opponent, Senator Bob Rumson (played by Richard Dreyfuss): “Whatever your particular problem is, I […]
Debates Do Not Solve Problems
15 December 2019 Watching all the problems that threaten the continued existence of America, but go unsolved, has brought me close to a state of despair. At times, our situation seems completely hopeless. In several columns, I have contended that the primary cause of our troubled condition is due to a turning from God and […]
The Boldness We Need
4 December 2019 We live in a country and world that are in disarray…headed toward certain self-destruction. Our only hope is in turning to God and following the way that He calls us to. Our failure to make this turn is, for the most part, because far too many Christians and Christian churches are failing […]
Chasing the Wind While Missing the Solution
13 November 2019 I am starting this column on Thursday night, 17 October 2019. This is the 12th day of 14 days of vacation in New Bern, North Carolina. My time is being spent staying in a house where the back porch overlooks an amazingly beautiful stream surrounded by trees and still green grass. This […]
The Power of Storytelling
31 October 2019 My last column was titled, “History Center: Another Hijacking Underway”. I addressed the effort by Mayor Mitch Colvin and some members of the Fayetteville City Council to make major changes to the planned North Carolina Civil War and Reconstruction History Center. No matter what the outcome-stopping the project, making changes, or proceeding […]
History Center: Another Hijacking Underway
17 October 2019 For over ten years, a group of volunteers, along with some paid staff, has been working to develop a concept for the N.C. Civil War and Reconstruction History Center, as well as raise funds, design the building, and build it. As of this writing, they have, with the help of extremely capable […]
Why the heck…?
4 October 2019 On Sunday, 8 September 2019, I found myself quietly crying during our pastor’s sermon. This was at First Baptist Church (201 Anderson Street) where Rev. Rob James is pastor. It did concern me that, although my crying was silent, I could not stop it. Further, I was struggling to determine why I […]
Challenges to Faith and Reason
19 September 2019 Over the past week, I received comments from three readers regarding two of my recent columns. They raised questions and challenges that some other readers very likely share. Consequently, I will respond in this column. The first two emails addressed my column titled “When the Selfish Quest for Power Alienates Reason.” One […]
Recognizing and Eliminating what is Senseless
10 September 2019 Hardly a day passes that I do not see or hear something that makes absolutely no sense to me. I came close, very close, to concluding that this was a rare condition, that I was pretty much alone in having this experience. Then, on Thursday, 15 August 2019, I heard Troy Williams’ […]
When the Selfish Quest for Power Alienates Reason
22 August 2019 The quest for power is probably acceptable where the aim is to better conditions for people or in some situation where correction is needed. However, when having power becomes the end in itself, reasoning is thrown to the wind. That is, those seeking power focus so totally on gaining it that any […]
