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Slipping into Totalitarianism?
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I did my taxes yesterday as across the nation tens of thousands of people protested President Trump’s refusal to release any of his tax returns as he prepares to make...
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The Doolittle Raid at 75: And Then There Was One
Lieutenant Colonel Dick Cole Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. 80 US Army Air Corps flyers manning 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers conducted a mission from the deck of the USS...
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Fragile and Unpredictable: Auschwitz and Human Behavior in the Crisis
Auschwitz Staff at Play Friends of Padre Steve’s World, In his book Auschwitz: A New History, Laurence Rees noted something that is important about how human beings act in crisis. After interviewing...
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Transfer into the Twilight
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, The past couple of days have been pretty hectic as I transfer from the Staff College to be the base chaplain at another base in the local area. I’ll still remain as an...
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Best of Times – Worst of Times, but the Only One We Got
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, it is amazing how many truly frightening things are going on in the world. In fact as I went through the rush signing out of the Staff College, transferring to Little...
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Truth Deniers: The Fundamentalist Idolatry of Preachers
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As I mentioned yesterday things have been quite busy and unsettled around here so I won’t be writing a lot today. That being said, I want to mention a comment that a...
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Infallibility, Narcissism, and Paranoia
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Once again just a short thought to ponder. Hannah Arendt wrote: “The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an...
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Understanding the Actions Ordinary Men: Perpetrators of Genocide
Ordungspolizei Executing Jews in Poland Friends of Padre Steve’s World, The great American theologian and philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: “Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but...
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America First and the Holocaust
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Before Donald Trump’s promise to Make America Great Again and govern by the principle America First there was a movement that proclaimed the message of America First....
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Beginnings of a Book
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Hannah Arendt wrote: “Slavery’s crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when...
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Living an Adventure: The Importance of Travel
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Mark Twain noted: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable...
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Fly the Friendly Skies
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I’m traveling to Houston today by air. Truthfully I have never been much a fan of flying. When I was younger I actually had a big fear of crashing, but after flying all...
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The Power of the Lie: Propaganda and Undying Belief in the Leader
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, After a long day of travel and some intitial meetings at my denominational chaplain training symposium I settled back into my hotel, contemplating some of the events of...
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The Politics of National Destruction
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I’m on my way back home from Houston today, a very early flight so I wrote this last night in my hotel room. Yesterday I wrote about how many people since the...
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Whirlwind Trips
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I’m back from my whirlwind trip to Houston and my denominational chaplain training symposium. It was good to see my bishop and colleagues but the trip was exhausting...
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President Trump, I Wish to Remind You that General Jackson is Dead
President Trump, President Andrew Jackson, and President James Buchanan Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I am never surprised when President Trump demonstrates his ignorance of American History or our...
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Dancing with Despots: The Moral and Political Dangers of Trump’s Love of...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, First it was Vladimir Putin of Russia, then Recip Erdogan the soon to be dictator of Turkey, last week Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous President of the Philippines, and...
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Gettysburg and the Era of Trump
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I’ll be traveling to Gettysburg this weekend to lead another Staff Ride and as I listened to President Trump’s remarks about the Civil War and on altering the American...
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Thoughts on Being Passed Over for Promotion
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Yesterday was a tough day. I failed to select for promotion to Captain for the second time. It wasn’t so much not being selected for promotion as I neither expected it...
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Walking the Lines: A Day on McPerson, Seminary, and Oak Ridge at Gettysburg
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today’s post is a bit late but I had a great day yesterday with my students as we had dinner and I taught about the strategic and operational conundrums faced by the...
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