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August Audio Gift

August Audio Gift

by | Aug 25, 2025 | , ,

In the summer I try to write at least one post on the lighter side, so this month I want to share with you a short chapter in my longer journey to create audio versions of my novels and short stories. To turn a 400 page novel like On The Edge into an audiobook by using an experienced human narrator could easily cost $10K or more, which I simply don’t have right now to invest for that purpose. A couple of years ago I used an early version of GooglePlay to create a computer-read audio version of...

Natural Burial

Natural Burial

by | Jul 29, 2025 | , ,

This month’s post is on a probably unexpected but in my view important subject: The many advantages of Natural Burial. I owe a debt to Colonel Jim Harper of Men’s Fraternity for planting the seeds on this subject many years ago. And I am excited that a Christian conference center in western North Carolina which we’ve attended for decades is about to open a large, wooded area for this purpose—there is already a long waiting list. And this is the rare subject today on which traditional...

Engage, Don’t Demonize

Engage, Don’t Demonize

by | Jun 28, 2025 | , ,

I had lunch with a good friend this week, and we lamented the demonization today of almost every public figure by some group or other public figure. Since I’ve written two novels about demons and spiritual warfare, with the second, Nation On The Edge, set in Washington, D.C. with demons lying to our country’s leaders, and since I also tend to succumb to the temptation to disparage those with whom I don’t agree on policies, I thought I better write this post to myself, as much as to others. I...

Inclusive Christianity

Inclusive Christianity

by | May 23, 2025 | ,

Over the past few weeks I’ve run into the term “Inclusive Christianity” on several occasions, and in each case the speaker celebrated its wisdom and virtues. I have to ask: Is this phrase a buzzword, a term of art, or a new theological construct? As if God’s greatest free gift to all of humankind needs a modifier to denote its universality. And does it imply that there is another kind of less-desirable “Exclusive Christianity," as where the New Testament declares repeatedly the foundational...

Unforced Error or Scripted Growth?

Unforced Error or Scripted Growth?

by | Apr 7, 2025 |

Think of this post as an attempt to look about a month into the future. I’m writing this on Monday, April 7th, as the stock market continues to plunge following the announcement of Trump’s sweeping tariffs late last week. As will be obvious to a regular reader of this space, I don’t like tariffs, except to accomplish specific results when a country or industry is egregiously targeting the U.S. with their own unfair tariffs, domestic subsidies, or trade restrictions. Or there is a strategically...

A “Deal” or Core Values?

A “Deal” or Core Values?

by | Mar 27, 2025 | , ,

Given my personal history with the Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, starting in 1969 as a graduate student and then ministry in Kyiv in 1991 and running real estate offices in both capital cities in the exciting days of 1991-2013, I am often asked what we should now do to end this terrible war. Since the Russian invasion in February, 2022, I’ve written three posts about the war. I just re-read all of them, and I would not change a word. The most relevant one right now is my November, 2022...

Trump Tariff Whisperer

Trump Tariff Whisperer

by | Feb 22, 2025 | ,

I’m sure that Elon Musk is smart. More importantly, President Trump thinks Elon is smart and apparently listens to him. I’m therefore addressing this post to Mr. Musk in hopes that he can convince the President that he’s about to make terrible mistakes on international trade that will almost certainly undermine, undo, and negate whatever positive impacts his other policies might have on our economy. Perhaps even turn his promised Golden Age into a stagnant mess. Implementing tariffs will...

The Great Common Sense Reset

The Great Common Sense Reset

by | Jan 29, 2025 |

I don’ know about you, but I’m both cautiously optimistic and nearly exhausted by recent events here in our country. And about the last thing we need is another opinion piece on this or that, so I’ll keep this brief. All I ever want is the truth. I believe that for quite a while now, particularly the last twelve years, we’ve been told a lot of lies or at best half-truths by powerful groups and individuals in and around our government, and these excesses led to some really bad policies.  On a...

2025

2025

by | Dec 30, 2024 | , , , ,

As we prepare to turn the calendar to 2025, and as I prepare to turn 78, I have written down a group of Hopes/Prayers for the coming year, and also a group of Personal Resolutions. You know I’m a follower of Jesus, who transformed me forty years ago, and that we live in a unique nation founded on Christian principles. These two truths are the wellspring for what follows. Hopes and Prayers for 2025 1. In 2025 we need much less federal government, for two reasons. The most obvious is our...

Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

by | Nov 26, 2024 | , , , ,

This short monthly post is meant to be a postscript to a longer essay I wrote nine years ago, which focuses on two “big picture” aspects of Thanksgiving. I just re-read it, and I don’t think I’d change a word. Please take a minute to read the earlier post, Why Thanksgiving?, and then come back. Within the framework of that larger perspective, in November, 2024, I now want to be specific about several people and events for which I am particularly thankful. Although our large family has some...

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