Frankly Speaking

So Ab and I went to Ski Sundown today. It was her first time to go skiing. After her lessons, I took her up to the top of the mountain. She...

So Michele's parents sent me a Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas, and my folks gave me some cash. So I took myself book shopping ...

Suffering and sacrifice just aren't a part of God's plan for you. True Christianity is all about having peace and prosperity and eve...

So last weekend, Michele and Aubrey and I drove down to El Paso for a wedding. Eddie Cartagena and Marissa Hernandez (Michele's niece) g...

I promise. This post has absolutely nothing to do with the previous one. I'm not poking fun. Not being deliberately ironic. It just hap...

Just in case you hadn't heard, Jesus is coming back . . . . on May 21, 2011. Be sure to mark your calendars. My favorite part of the sto...

I've been trying to work on a number of different historical projects lately. I know, I really should focus on just one. But I get distr...

Wills, Garry. The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1982). Wills, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journali...

Some church ministers have a secret. A big one: they no longer believe what they preach. They no longer accept the tenets of the faith that ...

Okay, so the other night Michele and I watched the movie Shutter Island . Maybe you've seen it. If not, you probably saw the promos. The...

Cold War Fever So maybe you've guessed by now. These days I'm focused on the Cold War; especially that episode called the Cuban Miss...

Stern, Sheldon M. The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. ...