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Churches that Ignore: The Mega-Church and the Least, the Lost and the Lonely
“Every sacramental encounter is an evangelical occasion. A smile warm and happy is sufficient. If people return to the pews with a smile, it’s been a good day for them. If the priest smiles after the...
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Strategy and Policy: Lee’s Offensive Gettysburg Campaign -The Worst of Both...
A cohesive national strategy involves true debate and consideration of all available courses of action. It must look at the ends, ways and means of achieving national strategic objectives as well as...
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The Stab in the Back: The Destructive Power of Myth in the Life of a Nation
In light of the many historical myths and conspiracy theories being floated by pseudo “historians” like the infamous David Barton it is always appropriate to look at examples of the power of those...
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The National Security State thru the Lens of Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, in time of war the law stands silent… James Madison wrote that “A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a...
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The Unfolding of Miscalculations
“The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor...
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A Song of Souls Changed by War: The Minstrel Boy
Absolution of the Irish Brigade at Gettysburg by Father Corby Friends of Padre Steve’s World. All the things going on in the world, wars, disasters, plane crashes have all have had me a bit melancholy...
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Days of Disastrous Decision Making: July 28th – August 4th 1914
padresteve:Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am a bit tired after working up in my attic again this morning and though I started a new article I decided that it will have to wait. Likewise my next...
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Faith and Doubt on a Sunday Afternoon
“Most priests, if they have any sense or any imagination, wonder if they truly believe all the things they preach. Like Jean-Claude they both believe and not believe at the same time.” Andrew...
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“Our Army Would be Invincible if…” The Problem of Senior Leadership in the...
This is another installment of my Gettysburg campaign series and the first of four segments on the problems faced by Robert E. Lee as he attempted to find experienced and competent senior leaders to...
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“Our Army Would be Invincible if…” The Problem of Senior Leadership in the...
omas This is the second part of an article that I posted yesterday which is part of my Gettysburg series. This focuses on the Third Corps commanded by Lieutenant General A.P. Hill. The link to the...
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Broken and Unlikely to Get Better: Military Mental Health Care
Well, my friends it’s time for me to get on the PTSD soapbox and go “Smedley” on the military mental health system. The fact is the system is broken, maybe not as bad as the VA, but broken...
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“You Broke it, You Bought It” The Responsibility of a Nation at War
The past couple of days have been very trying as I have been dealing with trying to get simple basic follow up care for the PTSD that I have been dealing with since 2008. Over the past couple of days I...
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The Beginning of the Never Ending End: August 1914
“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and...
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Winston Churchill, Turkey and the High Cost of Two Dreadnoughts
One of the more interesting and overlooked factors in the days leading up to the First World War, which had significant ramifications in the Middle East involved Winston Churchill. Churchill was...
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Europe: August 3rd 1914
Sir Edward Grey addressing the House of Commons The mobilization of millions of soldiers across Europe was moving rapidly as the sun set on the night of August 2nd 1914 when the German Ambassador to...
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Lee Moves North and the Battle of Brandy Station
Note: I will be heading back to Gettysburg for another Staff Ride this Friday and I am continuing to revise my course materials. This is another part of my Gettysburg series, and a revision to a...
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Lee Moves North Part Two: Winchester, into Pennsylvania and the Relief of Joe...
Ewell’s Corps crossing the Potomac This is a continuation of the article that I posted last night. It is a continuation of my Gettysburg series. Tomorrow I will finish the chapter on Lee’s movement...
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“A Spirit of Unbelief”: A.P. Hill, Harry Heth and the Prelude to the Battle...
padresteve:Friends of Padre Steve’s World It has been a long, but good day at work, unfortunately I had a tire blow out and thus no time to post the newest on Stuart’s Ride. So since I am heading up to...
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Lee Moves North, Army Politics & the Relief of “Fighting Joe” Hooker
Major General Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker Friends: This is a major revision of the two part “Lee Moves North” that I put out Monday and Tuesday. I depart tomorrow with my students for our Gettysburg...
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A Trip to Gettysburg amid Worldwide Chaos
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am heading up to Gettysburg with my students to conduct our staff ride teaching all of those things that I write about all the time. I guess a lot of what I like about...
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