My Walk Through the Valley of Baka, Part I I made the same reference in the last post; it’s from Psalm 84. Baka (בָּכָא) means ‘weeping’ and the operative preposition is ‘through.’ I didn’t do much weeping, but you...
ALONE AGAIN
Alone Again My stint in temporary homeless housing is over. And it was a blessing. But those of us who are familiar with how God operates know that blessings don’t always feel good; and many times this one did...
KNOW THY NEIGHBOR
Get to know your neighbors, or else…says Bill Nye. NYE: So, what do you do about [anti-Semitism]? I think you get to know your neighbors. And it’s gonna take, what, does it take a century, something like that? I’m...
NAMING THE ENEMY
There has been a lot of commentary on President Obama’s label–“random”–for the terror attack on the kosher grocer in France. Certainly, people make mistakes when speaking extemporaneously. But this kind of “mistake” is a chronic feature of Obamian commentary....
THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE YOU KNOW
“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and...
LIVING IN CHAOS
The country we are living in at present seems confusing, as if an alternate nation-state has subsumed the previously normal one. But the openly chaotic world was always this way. The cover which kept us safe has merely been...
STILL DREAMING
I’m homeless. Now before you start feeling sorry for me, know that I view everything as an opportunity from God. How I got here is a tiny bit important–house foreclosure plus bad credit which keeps me from renting—but if...