My now grown up and married daughter has provided a guiding light to me all of her life, and in her longsuffering-yet-cheerful way, continues to hold out a steady and reliable beacon, ensuring that I don’t lose my way. For instance, nearly a decade ago, she urged me to give up small time co...
In our time — a quarter of the way through the 21st century — and in this place (“America”), the word “Christian” is essentially meaningless. Therefore, when one claims “I am Christian,” that claim requires at least a modest attempt at further clarif...
Common understandings of “liberate” include setting free from a trap; release from prison; discharge from duties; salvation from eternal damnation; deliverance from evil (or at least from ever again having to “squeal like a pig”)1; emancipation from servitude (if not f...
A “vice” is many things: a multi-purpose tool (bench vice, vice grip); a Canadian-American magazine; a rank lower than the one without the vice (vice admiral, vice president); something you could get caught in; a morally depraved and sick and wrong personal, political or so...