Collecting My Thoughts

This is a Happy New Year message from Wall St. Journal this morning: "I hope you're enjoying the holiday weekend because 2024 isn...

Last night I was reading an investment report which referred to 2 wars--one in Europe and one in the Middle East. And self said, what about ...

  Conflict Remains the Dominant Driver of Africa’s Food Crisis (africacenter.org) Highlights of the report An estimated 149 million Africans...

We have a bird calendar on our kitchen table, and although I wouldn't say I've "learned" new birds, I've at least seen...

 Remember when Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s blamed all Germany's problems on Jews? The U.S. went to war to stop him. Now we have a fasc...

The Green New Steal folks and the "Include everyone but Whites" cults love to overlook that slavery is still endemic in Africa, a...

Our sermon today focused on the apostle Philip (feast day May 1) and the Ethiopian eunuch who was an important government official, who was ...

Ninety-seven percent of the slaves sold by black African tribal leaders and Muslim slave traders to the Portuguese, Spanish and English slav...

As fingers point and hands are wrung about 50 soldiers pulled out of the Turkey-Syria conflict where the U.S. is attempting to hold back ISI...

Our Sunday School class today had the opportunity to hear Rev. Jordan Long, President of the Lutheran Church of South Sudan, and to hear abo...

When the topic of reparations comes up, as it seems to when Democrats get frisky, I wonder how that will work. Approximately, 300,000 Af...

According to a letter I found, I bought this book in 2001 from the wonderful used book store (now closed) Acorn in Grandview because of th...

Americans are rich in God's Word. From where I'm sitting in my office I can see 11 Bibles, including my grandmother's, one in S...

  "The 2010 budget request for the International Military Education and Training programme proposed to increase funding for African ...

You haven't heard about it?  Not surprised. This summer at Lakeside we had a speaker from South Sudan who now lives in Columbus, Bol Aw...

Uju is coming to Columbus next month for several speaking engagements. The neo-colonialism of westerners demands Africans accept our western...

"And among the forces tearing at those bonds during 11 days of meetings at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Ore., were argumen...

I've been reading JAMA for about 30 years, and reports of using African women and children as lab animals never cease to surprise me, b...

“Do They Even Know It’s Christmas?” is voted as the worst Christmas song ever by this writer at a Catholic site. It's from Band Aid 1984...

Kaci Hickox, the nurse and epidemiologist who was quarantined in New Jersey after recently returning to the U.S. with a fever after treating...