Several weeks ago a guy at work gave me a Zip-Lock baggie of little Tepin peppers he’d gotten from Mexico. I’ve been keeping the peppers, known as “flea chilis” by the Aztecs, in my lunchbox, and occasionally I crush and … Continued
What’s your position on how and why we must help the Syrian refugees? Are you one of the many clamoring for opening the floodgates and resettling in the U.S. tens or hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle … Continued
ISIS assaulted the capital of France today. The terrorists’ Paris attacks, unprecedented in modern times in their audacity and method of execution, occurred mere hours after ABC News aired an interview with President Obama asserting that we have contained ISIS, also interrupting … Continued
My family got home from AWANA as I was doing my bookwork for the day. Our oldest son, 8 year-old Josiah, came to me as my wife and I were standing in the kitchen and began nervously asking if he … Continued
[Insert cryptic passive-aggressive status update here, addressed to… Well, you know who you are.] Yes, they’ll know who they are… Except they probably won’t, and a bunch of other people your update isn’t about will think it is, or else … Continued
Facebook, friends, free speech, and political correctness – which of these things is not like the others? Which seems most out of place? This past Wednesday night, as I was wrapping up the end of my hitch of eight days … Continued
An Open Letter to Trevor Noah, New Host of The Daily Show Trevor Noah, I defend my 2nd Amendment rights for the same reason I’m Pro-Life: I am against unjust harm coming to innocent people, and I’m particularly … Continued
To aid me in my ongoing quest to understand abortion, Micah – one of my esteemed colleagues at On The Rocks Blog – recently put me in touch with a friend of his, Pastor Kevin Morse of Theta Baptist Church … Continued
I’ve liked Dr. Carson since before he announced he was running for President, but at first I was worried he was going to be too timid. Have you ever seen someone in the public sphere so soft-spoken? He’s the antithesis of … Continued
Let’s examine America’s relationship with guns – past, present, and future. In this second post in a two-part series, I’d like to make a case in defense of self-defense.