Gift Guide Book Suggestion #3 Know a baseball or sports fan in your life? The Baseball by James Flerlage might be the perfect gift. Book Summary: Landon Myers is a retired pediatric oncologist who spends his days diagnosing the ills of his young grandchildren’s stuffed animals while scheming up new ways to spend time with […]
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Adjustments: A Novel by Will Willingham
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #2 Book Summary: By turns thoughtful and hilarious (even, inexplicably, both at the same time), this deeply Midwestern book quietly unfolds a vision for how to navigate in a world where we can’t always resolve things. It begins with an old man’s call to the insurance company to get a minor […]
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Aye-Aye Gets Lucky – Endangered & Misunderstood Book 1 by Terri Tatchell
Gift Guide Book Suggestion #1 Book Summary: Join endangered and misunderstood AYE-AYE on his quest to win back the hearts of the people of Madagascar after his mischievous pranks get him banned from his favorite village and labelled bad luck. Luckily for AYE-AYE, he meets a new friend who shows him first-hand how unpleasant being […]
I Grew Up Hiding My Family’s Shameful Secret. Here’s Why I Finally Decided To Share It.
Sitting in a TV studio, anchoring the news at an ungodly predawn hour, I reclined in my chair during a commercial break, using my phone to browse through crisp new dress clothes at an overpriced store. I was wondering if skinny ties were still in fashion when a notification came sliding down from the top […]
Amnesty International latest to slam surveillance giants Facebook and Google as incompatible with human rights
Human rights charity Amnesty International is the latest to call for reform of surveillance capitalism — blasting the business models of “surveillance giants” Facebook and Google in a new report which warns the pair’s market dominating platforms are “enabling human rights harm at a population scale”. “[D]espite the real value of the services they provide, […]
Losing Vietnam Was a Blueprint for Losing Afghanistan
On Monday, Oct. 21 the top American commander in Afghanistan, Army General Austin S. Miller, announced at a news conference in Kabul that 2,000 U.S. troops had been withdrawn from the country over the last year. Some 12,000 to 13,000 remain of a force that numbered more than 100,000 in 2011. By all accounts, the […]
Take It From a Former Moonie: Trump Is a Cult Leader
On the afternoon of Nov. 18, 1978, Jim Jones called his followers to the central pavilion of Jonestown, a sprawling outpost in the jungles of Guyana, and ordered them to drink a lethal mixture of cyanide and fruit punch. Over 900 people perished that day, more than a third of them children. As he lay […]
Straight Outta Context: The 5 Most Misused & Abused Bible Verses
ShareTweetPin In a previous article that I wrote, titled 9 Unbiblical Statements That Christians Believe, it opened with the following statements: “One of the greatest gifts that God gave mankind was the Holy Bible because the Bible is literally God revealing Himself and communicating Himself to mankind in written word.” The Word of God is an absolute […]
What Happened When I Agreed To Go On A Date With A Man Decades Younger Than Me
After being married for 20 years, I went through a horrific divorce. By the time I was ready to actively date again, I found the pool of eligible men my age (mid-50s) to be wanting. The men I encountered through online dating were worse. A few blatantly lied about their relationship status or having kids. […]
Perfect and Forgiven by Zach Maldonado
Book Summary: What do you do when you feel unworthy? How do you find freedom from shame, guilt, and sin? We’ve boiled down the message of Christianity to being imperfect people who have been forgiven. But what if the message isn’t just about what Christ has done for us–forgiving our sins so we can go […]