Remember the good old days when we used to wonder if our children could ever pray again in school? The bumper sticker campaign that had emerged every now and then was “Kids Need to Pray”. The drivers of such vehicles fervently believed that the American God listed on our dollar bills as in whom we trust, was anxiously waiting for school prayers to earnestly begin each school day, along with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. We added “under God” to that pledge in 1954 to cover all bets. When I was a kid in the 50’s, I prayed […]
Civilizing Citizens with Couth & Culture
We have had immigration issues since heaven knows when, but it began when those white European invaders started taking over native American lands in order to bring in slaves from Africa to see if capitalism would work with free labor. The art of the treaty was used to bring about this change, and military power was used to ratify everything. The Doak’s Stand Treaty was invented in my part of Mississippi in 1820 and served as good example of how great a deal this was for the Choctaw tribes whose land was about to be had for plantations. They were […]
Who Was That Unmasked Man?
Most of us have grown accustomed to utilizing masks to prevent the spread of this crazy and careless Covid19 virus. We have seen the science and understand that vaccines and masking really do the job in bringing down those morbid statistics. And if more of us would live by these gracious truths, we could save more of us from death. But the proverbial fly has landed in this ointment of cure. The devil in disguise this time is the politics of misinformation. I try to be considerate of others and wear my mask in most public buildings like the post […]
Ain’t It Awful!
Lately, I’ve been playing the “ain’t it awful” card on some of our blogs to show us just how far we are up that proverbial creek without a paddle to our name. The term could easily be used for many of the newsworthy events of the day, especially during this Covid19 pandemic and all the political quagmires and shenanigans that consume the news, like the insurrection of January 6 or Texas outlawing abortions with wild west tactics where bounty hunters can wear their guns to town to nab those suspicious would-be mothers. On a more personal level, most of us […]
How Well Is It With Your Soul?
Proper Presbyterian protocol demanded that I be brought up in the “nurture and admonition” of the church. In my case, they had to go heavy on the “admonition”. One of the tools employed in my indoctrination was the Westminster Catechism, beginning with the Children’s edition which asked “What else did God give Adam and Eve beside a body?” Answer: “God gave them souls that will never die.” [Remember, they did not have belly buttons!] Question 19: “Have you a soul as well as a body? Answer: Yes, I have a soul that will never die.” As Answer 20 and the […]