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Trayvon Martin and the Pro-Life Movement: Do the Post-Born Matter at All?
I am perplexed tonight. I see people, many of whom are friends fight stridently against all abortion. I am not for abortion, but I do not think that it should be banned. That aside what I think the...
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The Return of “The Freak”: Tim Lincecum Pitches Second No-Hitter of 2013 MLB...
“It’s pretty surreal for me to be a part of that, obviously I’ve gotten to see a couple of those, but to be in the middle of one is a little different. I’m still kind of pinching myself right now.”...
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Kindred Spirits
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are the dangerous men, for they...
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A Midsummer Night Dream: The MLB All Star Game, Faith and Life
“Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.” Saul Steinberg Those that have...
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What Goes Around…The Problem of Trolls
I find it amazing just how nasty some people can be in cyberspace. The behavior of some towards people that they know nothing about on sites like Facebook, Twitter and even comments on news articles...
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To Iraq and Back: Reporting for Duty
In July 2007 my assistant at EOD Group Two, RP1 Nelson Lebron and I began our Iraq adventure. This is one of a series of posts which will be published periodically to tell our story. While they will...
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To Iraq and Back: Days at the Deployment Processing Center
Me Aboard an Iraqi Oil Smuggler in 2002 This is another installment of my account of my account of mine and RP1 Nelson Lebron’s deployment to Iraq in 2007. By the time the first day had ended there...
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Relearning Ministry Again For the First Time
“Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one’s own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.”...
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Monday Musings: The War at Home
Last week was quite challenging at work with sequester and other things going on. Needless to say I was busy but it was at the same time quite rewarding, though not without pain of seeing a number of...
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Ryan Braun Versus the Other Cheaters: The Biogenesis PED Scandal
Milwaukee Brewers slugger and 2011 National League MVP copped a plea deal with Major League Baseball yesterday regarding the mountain of evidence that implicated him in yet another Performance...
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The Royal Baby: George Alexander Louis, A Name Fit for a Costanza
The Once and Future King George? Serenity Now! Like many Americans whose families left the old world, particularly England because of the Monarchy I was fascinated to see what Will and Kate would...
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To Iraq and Back: Living Wills, Immunizations Gone Bad and More Sleepless Nights
This is another installment of my To Iraq and Back series which tells of my deployment to Iraq with RP1 Nelson Lebron in 2007 and 2008. One of the sobering things as you get ready to go to war are...
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Muddling Through PTSD Recovery: A Chaplain’s Story of Return from War
“Captain, you do need time. You cannot achieve complete recovery so quickly. And it’s perfectly normal after what you’ve been through, to spend a great deal of time trying to find yourself again”...
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To Iraq and Back: A Last Night Together and a Kiss Goodbye
Judy and I on the German Sail Training Ship Gorch Fock at the Norfolk Harbor Fest a couple of weeks before deployment This is another of my “To Iraq and Back” articles about my deployment to Iraq in...
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To Iraq and Back: A Bus Ride to Carolina
This is another installment of my To Iraq and Back series. My CRV with Judy in it pulled away and Nelson and I went about our business. We staged our gear as we waited for the buses to arrive to take...
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The Uncomfortable Middle: The Challenge to the Certitude of Unprovable Doctrine
“Man no longer lives in the beginning–he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the...
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Remembering USS Indianapolis CA-35
On July 30th 1945 the USS Indianapolis CA-35 was speeding from the island of Guam where she had made some personnel transfers to Leyte. Indianapolis under the command of Captain Charles B McVay III...
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Mementos and Memories: The Symbols of the Tapestry of Life
“Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.” William Manchester One thing...
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Wondering
‘You wonder what I am doing’? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle me and...
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August 1914: The Beginning of a Century of Disasters
The Austrian Declaration of War against Serbia “No one starts a war–or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so–without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how...
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