I just finished a documentary on the story of Jim Jones and The People’s Temple. The story is one of the most disturbing chapters in American history, one that most people aren’t taught about today. I imagine it’s because, in … Continued
“Lord, make me to be a man of peace and quiet action.” I woke up this morning with those words etched in my mind. I had been praying them repeatedly in my dream. I don’t remember much else from the … Continued
My wife Lauren and I recently got the results back on DNA tests from Ancestry.com, and I have been joking with people I tell this to that it turns out I am 100% white. Joking aside, the results indicate the … Continued
Weakness is not a virtue. Neither is poverty. This is what I told my sons during one of the many white board talks I delivered a couple weeks ago, when I was home on a ‘staycation’ for my wife’s knee … Continued
Several years ago, I started writing a novel. The premise was simple. It was going to be an epic high fantasy in the vein of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. The subject matter … Continued
It was a rainy Saturday morning in Eastern Montana. I woke up, made myself a cup of coffee, and similarly woke my computer from its nightly slumber. I checked my Facebook notifications as I sipped. There I found new replies … Continued
Donald Trump campaigned on ‘Make America Great Again’, but was America ever a great nation? And, supposing she was, what made her great to begin with? Call me a conservative, but I believe America has been a great nation. Moreover, … Continued
The large white board in our dining room received a lot of use today. First, over breakfast, I used it to explain to my sons a project I was working on from home. The omni antenna gets assembled, then I … Continued
A Story of White Privilege Consider, for a moment, a young white man from a privileged home who goes off to college and joins a fraternity. This young white privileged frat boy begins to wreak havoc. He tweets out videos … Continued
Why do bad things happen to good people? How can a good God who loves us permit all the suffering in this world? These and other questions related to the problem of evil came up in a recent conversation I … Continued