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I am a retired pastor and Christian school teacher now devoting my time to the ministry of writing. I have enjoyed some success in writing over the years. I have had more than forty articles published in a denominational publication. I have three self-published

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My wedding: 1 of 40

The weather was not what we had hoped for, but how much can you hope for weather-wise when your wedding date is December 28 and your wedding location is central Indiana? The day prior to the wedding was warm and rainy; the day of the wedding was cold and blustery with the beginnings of a two-week long on and off snow storm. ...
Travel > Public Transportation Public transportation should be free: 1 of 40

When I was a child living in a large city, buses ran up and down the major streets of the city at very regular intervals. I remember my older sister taking me on a bus to a downtown movie theater to watch Walt Disney's "Song of the South." The year was 1947, I was six, and the bus ride cost my sister a dime each way. Whoever...
Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Should a woman have the right to choose abortion?: 12 of 215

Quite frankly, I do not know when my life began. The date on which this earthly existence we call life began for me has been lost in the mystery of the past. The date simply is not known to me or to anyone now alive. I have a birth date, and that is well-documented. An official government document I have in my possession, pl...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Expressions of love: 12 of 196

Forty times around the sun earth has on her journey run, Moving e'er at God's command bearing sea and sky and sand. Always with her silent moon, ever spinning to their doom Dancing to a tune that's played in a Heavenly serenade. On that spinning, dancing orb two were drawn by love's cord, First to Him who made them clean by ...
Education > Education (Other) Should teens have sex education in schools?: 7 of 78

I must admit at first I was inclined to join those writers in the right hand column, the ones who believe that sex education is not an appropriate subject for public schools to be teaching. However, as I thought about it, I realized that sex education has been in the public schools for decades. It has traditionally been taug...
Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Why we write: 16 of 166

Why does anyone write? Most writers have no assurance anyone really is interested in what they write, so why bother? After all, there are only a very few people who can actually make a comfortable living out of writing. There are even fewer who can become rich, famous and successful by putting words on paper. Most people, bo...
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Have Christians as a whole left behind the teachings of Christ?: 4 of 36

Jesus said that people would not stay true to the fundamental truths He taught. He predicted a great falling away from the revealed truth, a prediction reiterated by Paul, John, Peter and James. False teachers would come, they all said. And false teachers have certainly come, a seemingly never-ending parade of them over the ...
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Holidays & Celebrations Can Christians ever manage to reclaim Christmas as a holy day?: 3 of 22

In reality, Christians have no need to reclaim Christmas as a so-called "holy day." Historically, Christmas has always been much more secular than holy. There is no evidence in the Bible that early Christians celebrated the day of Christ's birth. And, since shepherds were in the fields caring for their sheep on the night Jes...
Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies Should smoking be allowed in public places?: 29 of 208

It is true that laws in the United States are sometimes obtrusive and arbitrary and every law that is passed does chip away at our freedoms. However, I must agree that the laws that ban smoking in public places are necessary and beneficial. Of course, it is easy for a non-smoker such as myself to say that. Such laws certainl...
Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Is Al Gore right to call global warming the most serious problem facing America today?: 2 of 14

Global warming, if indeed it is an actual phenomenon, is not the most serious problem facing America today, not by a long shot. What to do in Iraq is far more pressing than global warming. The wellbeing of an entire nation is on the line there with an urgent and immediate need. It is a life and death situation faced every da...