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Today we celebrate—well, many do—the birth of our great country. Independence Day. This year more than others I feel compelled to say something about that.  I spent 21 years in the United States Air Force. I served with the greatest men and woman, Black, White, Brown and everything in between. There were so many places,Continue reading “Celebrating Simply Being American”

Is it true that “all that we are asked to bear we can bear?” (Another way that folks put this is to say that “God won’t put more on us than we can bear?) The person who sent me this quote about bearing all we can bear summed up its meaning when she said thatContinue reading “God Won’t Put More On Me Than I Can Bear?”

Someone forwarded me a quote from the novelist Elizabeth Goudge, where she said “All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.” While the quote sounds profound, it really conveys aContinue reading “The Spiritual Life and Bearing What We are Able”

Dear Candace, I, along with my wife Ursula, who is also an African American, write to share with you some things of great concern to us as we have listened to you. We write as bible-believing Christians. In the interest of full disclosure, politically and as simply as we can put it, we identify asContinue reading “Candace Owens and the Demeaning of Black People”

I have been shocked and deeply grieved at the comments some people have made, most notably Candace Owens, which I will be responding to as well, and memes that are floating around that highlight George Floyd’s troubled past. Not only have they seen fit to denigrate the grave of a man who was ruthlessly chokedContinue reading “The Shameless Denigration of Mr. George Floyd”