It finally happened. What started as 15 days to slow the spread became over a year of restrictions, mandates, over-reaches, dictates, and decrees. We endured the breathless media coverage, nanny-state protectionism, panic porn chyrons of the current numbers of dead and infected, the droning press conferences that elevated some to…

Listen to this article as a podcast episode. — From History.com: The blood remained fresh on the snow outside Boston’s Custom House on the morning of March 6, 1770. Hours earlier, rising tensions between British troops and colonists had exploded into violence when a band of Redcoats opened fire on a crowd that had pelted them with not just…

I have received some feedback regarding the title of the podcast. And I’d like to take the opportunity to explain my thinking behind it and the reason this show got its name. Have you ever considered the question, “What is the opposite of love?” Much attention is given to the…

I love music. I have always loved how a good song can cause you to move your body and also move your heart. My grandmother tells a story of when I was one year old. She was babysitting me. It was the first time that I had been apart from…

Religious people often suffer disdain from a scornful world. “How could anyone so blindly place their unwavering trust in an invisible being,” they ponder. Noted atheist Richard Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion, recently scoffed, “There are people who believe Jesus turned water into wine. How do they hold…

On this fantastic Friday, I hope to inspire you to courage. In one of our previous episodes, I pondered the question, What Happened to Courage. You can listen to that episode here for more background to today’s show. I made the obvious point that AOC- the “abundance of caution” is…

I recently had to hire a plumber for a DIY job gone sideways. We had a leaky faucet in our bathtub that I had already made two attempts to fix on my own. After spending close to $100 in parts and crappy tools and spending at least 12 hours watching…

I have a friend who related a story of a conversation with his fourteen-year-old son over the weekend. Maybe you can relate. He reported that at 8 AM, he saw his son was lumbering out of his room before church. The unsuspecting adolescent sat on the couch to gather his…

In a culture driven by sensation and controversy, it is unusual to have honest dialogue. It is rare for a divided culture to engage in nuanced discussion about our generation’s critical issues. Compromise has all but gone extinct. But not on this show. …