Month: October 2017

The Tongue is a Fire

“The tongue is a fire…and it is set on fire of hell.” ********** It was a long time ago and far away when the Apostle penned this theorem. He was sitting under a date palm near the Dead Sea discussing women with his tongue-tied camel. The validity of the theory was confirmed later that day …

Taking a Knee

“So here’s a quarter, call someone who cares.” Travis Tritt wrote those lines, having been shafted by a romance gone bad. Country music can synthesize anything with these ‘somebody done somebody wrong songs.’ They lend substance to America’s self-indulgent malaise. Everybody’s protesting something. Everywhere there’s Unrest, Disunity, Dysfunction and Inequity. It’s a cacophony of chaos. …