It was the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September, 1787, and expectations were running high. Having worked long and hard at crafting the document, and emerging from the room, Benjamin Franklin was asked by an anxious citizen, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Came the response from…
One of the things one hears with frequency in our current cultural soiree with regard to homosexuality goes something like this: “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality”, and of course the intended upshot is fairly obvious. As the reasoning goes, because we can find in the words of Jesus, recorded in the gospels, no mention…
Goodness knows I’ve recently given my long-time friend and WebbieDude Paul some grief lately—the sum total of which doesn’t even begin to even the score, I might add—but while I am away in El Salvador in a couple weeks, if everything goes according to plan, he’ll be getting married, and I wish he and the…
Trying to get my blog to link up with my Facebook account. If this works, look out, world!