The older I get the less tolerant I become. Never in the history of mankind has information been more readily available and I doubt if there has ever been an era (at least not in our country) where so much ignorance abounds. At a time when people can genuinely research…
Flashback Rome, about 2,000 years ago. Israel had to the bear the yoke of their iron-fisted rulers in Rome. The Roman Empire was fundamentally immoral, despotic, and the vassal states such as Israel had a heavy burden weighed on them through taxation and limited civil liberties. This was the cradle…
Teddy Roosevelt’s word ring as true today as the day he spoke them, but they have taken on new meaning for me as I look around at a world that is weak, soft, and so easily offended that we dare not look crosseyed at another without creating some objectionable offense.…
Most of us are familiar with Patrick Henry’s famous quote, but have you ever read the entire speech given at St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia March 23, 1775. MR. PRESIDENT: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who…
Having grown up in the heritage of the churches of Christ, I have spent a lot of time explaining misconceptions that are regularly expressed by those who are unfamiliar with our fellowship (and many who should be). The church of Christ is not a denomination. While we wear the name…
When I started the untethered blog a couple of years ago, it was with the intent of encouraging others to loose their self-inflicted bonds and live a free, untethered life. This idea scares some people because they struggle with setting healthy boundaries for themselves, or fail to put this idea…
I won’t lie, things have been pretty rough lately! I have had a couple of self-pity days where all I wanted to do was cry in my coffee. I have asked God why more times than I care to remember and grumbled and complained to the point of sinfulness. I…
Today I took a little test to estimate my life expectance and it came out at 10,032 days left to life. That puts me just a little over 83 years of age. That sounds a bit ambitious to me – considering the test does not determine things like traveling to…
The older I get, the more I think my parents and grand-parents had the right idea. There were times I didn’t think my father liked me very much. He yelled, he screamed, he grounded me, and as Bill Cosby put it, “he didn’t give whippings, he hit for distance.” That…
In 1990 I returned from doing mission work in New Zealand and it was time to buy a car. I was young, inexperienced, and ill equipped for the task. I went to a local used car dealership and bought an old conversion van that ended up costing me far more…