John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

By JOHN PAUL STEVENS MARCH 27, 2018 Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad...

Protests Shut Down Sacramento Kings Game, Freeways Over Stephon Clark’s Death

NEWS 03/23/2018 12:49 am ET Protests Shut Down Sacramento Kings Game, Freeways Over Stephon Clark’s Death Black Lives Matter activists linked arms and blocked the Golden 1 Center while chanting: “Stephon Clark!” By Carla Herreria   Outraged over the latest police shooting of an unarmed...

The Spirited H Word

MISDIRECTION The dark speaks a word to lightThe Son replies,wellness is a white shipsailing across an endless night. © Calbab 2018 A while ago I finished reading a most interesting article presented by one of my NT friends.  The originating article included an internal...

The One about THE "G" WORD.

I hate the word, “GAY.” Good. I've got that off my chest. In the English Oxford dictionary the word GAY means, “Light-hearted and carefree.” When did “gay” as homosexual begin its journey of 'saving' grace to a class of people? Let’s look back. Historians believe the first use of “homosexual”...

AGNOSTIC: Doubter or Somebody Who Does not Know?

DOUBTING THOMAS? MIDDLE PATH? MY LORD AND MY GOD! The focus of this article is on Agnostics and Agnosticism. Questions such as these came to me about a week ago as I watched  prime-time evening news. Actually, I'd like to come back to this after a bit. Clarence Darrow,...

The One About FAITH

When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8 The Conversion of John Newton Captain John Newton wrote in his book, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade: With our ships, the great object is to be full. When the ship is there, it is thought desirable, she should take...

The One About Marriage: NEW POEM BY NEETU!

[Start the song now.] MARRY ME, M. Only once was I offered a hand in marriage just what I needed -- the sanctity.  It could have been the look in those eyes, in that moment you could be mine.  Our hands entwined for all to see I dreamed that dream believed it could be  You couldn’t...

John Unlike Me - REVISED February 11, 2018.

John Unlike Me is a pseudonym, a symbol even, for a truly amazing man that I met during the post-modern 1990's. I had newly come to faith in God in the mid-90's and I was progressing through a six-week interval some of you may be conscious of or have observed in new believers: It is a stage most...

THE GOSPEL SERIES: NewsTalkers 2018

THE GOSPEL SERIES New Testament Book: Gospel of Matthew The Gospel of Matthew is likely the most widely read of the four Gospels. Like all the Gospels it comes to us “anonymous,” but strong early church tradition supports Matthew as author. Matthew, a former tax collector, and one of the...

Pressed Into Service

When Were You Ever Pressed Into Service? How Did It Make You Feel? As a teen male, I was first pressed into service in an unappreciated role of "gay" high-schooler. Of course, in those years, it was nowhere a positive look. My life was a lonely, terribly unspectacular tale of beatings,...