One of the reasons I can’t stand the cavalier use of cries of racism when something doesn’t go a person’s way is because it can serve as an easy excuse…
In this oddly hyper-sensitive era where so many things are determined by how folks feel about something, the ground is fertile for bad information, rumor, innuendo and the confident settling…
About 20 years ago, I dropped my friend Robert Bradshaw off in New London, Connecticut for a class at the Navy Chaplain School prior to his commissioning as a naval…
The term “new normal” gained traction in 2009 when then President Barack Obama used it in an attempt to lower economic expectations on the heels of the 2008 collapse, and…
In the 1980s, the political landscape of America was very much influenced by a self-proclaimed religious group, led by famed televangelist Jerry Falwell, called the Moral Majority. As I was…
There are a lot of ideas we wish would work. It would be lovely if they would, and many of them are peaceful, uplifting, non-judgmental, and seemingly forward-leaning, innovative approaches.…
“How goes the war?” my friend Lee asked as he shook my hand and gave me a hug outside of the coffee shop. Lee is an admirer of the work…