They used to say that baseball was America's pass-time. Then it was football, at least from September to February. Then it was basketball...

George Dawson was an enslaved black man living in Texas. For most of his life he could neither read nor write. In 1898 he learned to do...

It was the quintessential American holiday- -the 4th of July. The location was not only idyllic but classic- -a small American town...

The older I get, which is to say, the closer I get to meeting Jesus face-to-face and wanting to be on His good side- -the more tolerant I...

Members of the Supreme Court and the Republican party are apoplectic that one of SCOTUS's super-double-secret draft opinions has been...

Covid-19 threatens to become a zombie virus: one that never goes away but just keeps changing its spikes and thistles and finding new...

I was so very, very disappointed, and was literally aghast at the subservience of the 43 Republican U.S. Senators who voted to acquit...

“If you want a lamb and a tiger to live in the same forest, you don’t try to make them communicate. You cage the bloody tiger.” Edwin...

The Republican Party is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. And not just figuratively. Consider: On August 23, 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson...

In the “hymnal” of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006), the committee that compiled the...

Democrats, we've won. Now, the trick is to keep winning. Here's how. At noon on January 20, Democrats will hold the White House and the...

I watched only one episode of “The Apprentice” during its nine-season, eleven year run. It was episode number four of the first season. I...

As President Trump spews forth conspiracy theories about his failed re-election campaign, he seems unaware that he still has a day job....

Officials in some counties in rural Virginia are passing resolutions denouncing their governor for "tyranny" for mandating masks and...

It is a sad comment on the state of education in America that Trump voters are so ignorant of history. How else could 70+ percent of them...

A few days ago, Donald Trump said he wants to bring troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan by Christmas. And, he also wants to start a war...

Clint Eastwood’s much praised movie “American Sniper,” is based on the life and tragic death of highly decorated Navy Seal and sniper,...

The “Backfire Effect” describes the tendency of people who hold a particular idea or belief to double down on that idea or belief when it...

A young black man was shot and killed by police in Philadelphia this past week. He was brandishing a knife on a city street and refused...

Twentieth century journalist and satirist, H.L. Mencken, once wrote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed...