Quotations
My New Year’s Resolution: Be Like Billy Graham
What? Oh, you thought…hahaha! You imagined crusades, dynamic preaching, and conferences with heads of state. No, no. I haven’t visions of preaching to millions nor delusions of grandeur (most of the time). I just read a little book over the Christmas holiday and knew I’d found what I wanted to... »
Making Sarah Palin Look Dumb
It’s too bad that disingenuity, self-interest, and lack of interest in “the facts” seem to drive the political machine. From the AtlanticWire’s “breakdown” of Sarah Palin’s O’Reilly Factor interview November 19, 2009, rebroadcast late December: Palin on Reading O’REILLY: Couric asked you an easy question [about what magazines or newspapers... »
Don’t Be a Hero
“I don’t want to be considered a hero. Imagine, young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and... »
Follow-up on Brit Hume on Tiger Woods (links)
Some noteworthy commentary by other Christian bloggers: In Secularism and Brit Hume, Hunter Baker @First Things’ Evangel links to Big Hollywood’s Adam Baldwin, who quotes Baker on secularism: “…a radical concept that involves the privatization of religious belief: when we are together in the public square, if we are ‘virtuous and civil’ then we will... »
A heartwarming tale of the unexpected from Mike Huckabee
This story from Huckabee’s A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit appeared in Focus on the Family’s year-end letter from the president, but I am just now getting to (and blogging about) my mail from December, so pretend that this post is appearing when it should’ve, around Christmastime! Although,... »
Tiger Woods: Did the culture make him do it?
Nuts if I can find where I read comments to the effect that our current hyper-sexualized culture is partly to blame for Woods’ recently-revealed “transgressions;” otherwise I would link to it. That culture and Tiger’s position in it helped facilitate his many alleged infidelities can’t be denied, nor can the fact that ubiquitous sexual... »
The Plimoth Experiment
In journaling the Plymouth settlement’s early years, William Bradford writes, “…All this whille no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expecte any. So they begane to thinke how they might raise as much torne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope then they had done, that they might... »
He Wanted a Table
I was so disappointed to discover that Clyde Robert Bulla passed away before I realized what a great childrens’ author he was, and had the chance to contact him. In his autobiographical work (for children, of course, but not unappreciable by adults), A Grain of Wheat, he writes of his very first day... »
Post-Civil-War Reflection on American Women: Education, Companionship, Housekeeping, and Pie
The following excerpt is from The Human Side of American History; ed. Richard C. Brown, late Professor Emeritus of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY; from the 6th printing, 1968 by Ginn and Company, now part of Pearson PLC of London. The book appears to be out of... »
The Good Mommy Paradox
What are societal expectations of a mother these days, and how is she assisted in meeting them? How does society judge a mother? I give you two (fictitious, but entirely plausible) scenarios: Mother A: Sends Johnny off to school in the morning. Johnny spends the day at school, eats a taxpayer-subsidized... »
