So, what’s your passion? What do you pursue? To what extremes will you go to pursue it?
One of ours is college football, and for that reason we were on the road Saturday going to Waco for another ballgame. We left early and that was good because we didn’t get very far before we hit a wall of traffic on I-635 in Mesquite. More impatient than worried about being late, we used a driving app to find the quickest route around the clog.
Continue reading “Fish or Football?”The passing of actor-director Robert Redford this week touched me in an unexpected way. Redford starred in many memorable films, but the one I’ve thought of most this week is “All the President’s Men.” The film came out in 1976 when I was in high school, but I saw it again a few years later as I was finishing my degree in journalism.
The film tells how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, reporters at The Washington Post, uncovered details of a burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. carried out by Republican party operatives. That led to revelations of an attempted coverup and ultimately the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
Continue reading “You Shall Know the Truth”“Thou shalt not kill.” It’s written right there in the Ten Commandments as given to Moses in the Old Testament. Some say we need that on a placard in our classrooms or courthouses to remind us, but we don’t. It’s already written on our hearts; it’s woven into our DNA. How do I know? Because killing shocks and repulses us. We know viscerally that it’s wrong.
So why do some people not understand that? Why do some people kill? Some say it’s the result of pure evil. Others say it’s mental illness. Maybe it’s something else. I don’t know; I’m not a theologian, sociologist, psychologist or doctor. I just know it’s wrong.
Continue reading “Lord, Have Mercy on Us”