When is Memorial Day? It’s Memorial Day weekend—a time of cookouts and gathering with family and friends over a long weekend and opening up the swimming pool and watching the Indy 500 and, of course, decorating the graves of our departed loved ones. Memorial Day was always one of the year’s highlights when I was […]

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro; Chief of Naval Operations Navy Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti; and Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Eric M. Smith testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Navy Department’s posture and 2025 fiscal year budget. May 16, 2024 Transcript Uh And since we have a quorum, I […]

They Were Afraid Shortly after moving here, someone asked me in Bible class about the so-called Longer Ending of Mark (Mk 16:9-20). I took a deep breath before noting that most of the ancient and most reliable Greek manuscripts lack Mark 16:9-20; plus, there are significant stylistic differences in those verses with the rest of […]

Who Influences You? We live in a wickedly sinful society—I really don’t know any other way of putting it. Open the newspaper, and you can read about how people’s lives have been completely consumed by hate and greed and racism. When you flip on the television and settle in for an evening of entertainment, you’ll […]

Get Up! The Israelites conquered Jericho easily, thus the people of Ai should have been no match for the Israelites. After all, the spies Joshua sent to scout out the land told him there wasn’t even a reason to send the whole army against such a small city. Joshua listened to his spies, and about […]