Originally published as a letter-to-the-editor in the Sioux City Journal, I wrote that for all of our faults as a country, we are still the greatest country in the world. Nowhere does that mean that there isn’t much work to do nor that we shouldn’t critically think of ways to improve and progress in the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
American Exceptionalism
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged American exceptionalism on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Strange, Sad, Bizarre Story of Kevin Hart
Posted in Culture on January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our culture seems fascinated with celebrity, and who hasn’t wanted to be the one all eyes were on? Especially in the midst of the Heisman, playoffs, and the flocking of hordes to have one touch, autograph, smile, be photographed, I have even wondered if my days were over to grab the spotlight in college football. [...]
Ishmael and Huck–Waters I Have Known
Posted in Literature, tagged Literature, melville, river fiction, sea fiction, twain on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I was asked to name the top five American novels. Let me boil down the list to two: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In some ways, two books could not be different for I believe that in them, we have represented the two broad strokes in which the [...]
I Have Felt God in the Storms
Posted in Religion, Uncategorized, tagged God, hope, psalms on January 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have just spent one of those long nights wrestling with the human soul. Martin Lloyd-Jones speaks of voices talking to us, e.g. thoughts, whispers from the enemy, past regrets, guilt, a sense of purposelessness. And on last night’s New Year’s, they seem to come in droves. Adding to that has been a subsequent dry [...]
