Martin
St. Martin of Tours was born in 316 AD in what is now Hungary. Though we do not know the day of Martin’s birth, we do know the year and the location. These metrics are important because they put him in the time and place of the Roman Empire. We also know that Martin was…Read More
What I Am Thankful For
Note from Author: This was written for Thanksgiving, 2018. What could be more cliché or grammatically incorrect than to ask, on Thanksgiving Day, “What are you thankful for?” I had four years of Latin in high school and an exceptional English teacher. Ending a sentence with a preposition was strictly forbidden in both disciplines, and…Read More
Honor: Senator John McCain
Like all the students and graduates of military academies and schools, my officer training classmates and I pledged our commitment to the Army’s Code of Conduct. This code said that we would follow the rules of the school, the military services, the Constitution, and laws of the United States of America. Fulfilling our duties was…Read More
The First Time
Darius Rucker sings a song entitled “For the First Time” in which he asks the following question: “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” In February 1967 I was sleeping with twenty other soldiers on the second floor of a World War II era army barracks at Fort Sill, Oklahoma….Read More
Time
Time is elusive. We can’t see it, feel it, or smell it, but we know that time exists and that it profoundly affects our lives. We experience time in its linear dimension. If you are a person of faith you may believe and understand that God created time. But when you think deeply about this…Read More
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