Frankly Speaking

The notion that human beings are really just souls who temporarily have bodies is something I sometimes hear. But it flies in the face of th...

The last post introduced the subject of this occasional series. From this point on, then, when I speak of Mary, I mean the mother of Jesus. ...

Many years ago I was struggling to learn how to preach. It was around then that the elders of my home church in Altus, Oklahoma, invited me ...

Ancient manuscript containing parts of 1 Peter 2 This morning, a bit of musing. This post takes up the question of the relationship between ...

The theme of Federalist 21 is reasons why the Articles of Confederation should be replaced as the written constitution for the new United S...

Back on September 23rd of this year, I traveled down to Lubbock with my good friend and my preacher, Bret McCasland . We enjoyed a nice dinn...

These days I'm thinking about the Book of Isaiah. Most of this relates to a series of lessons I'm preparing to teach at church. It...

I put this post together for my HIST 1302 course. It explains how in the 1920s the United States started becoming more and more the sports-c...

Several months ago, I was asked to teach a Bible class at the Polk Street United Methodist Church here in Amarillo. The class wanted me to i...

Last weekend's Wall Street Journal contains the regular column by Peggy Noonan , one of my favorite opinion writers. Her most recent is...

Episcopal scholar Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr., has done a good job expressing the historic catch-22 of the Calvinist understanding of salvatio...

It's August 10, 2025. Public schools and Amarillo College will begin a new year within days. Educators are reporting earlier than stude...