In ages past, a fervent interest in history required stacks of those ancient paper things called “Books.” Now books are nice, and still essential for scholarship, but I would not trade internet access for any of them, except for the Greatest Story Ever Told, the Bible. …

In the history of the world, there is only one man who suffered through a criminal death and then lived to tell about it. You either believe Him, or you don't. It's that simple. I'm going with him into eternal life. Thanks for your informative analysis.

I don’t know, but I been told (by Steve Schwartz), that a recent trump tweet referred to “Radical Left Thugs” as “vermin.” The trump tweet, which Steve showed us in his “The Warning” blog, specifies who, in trump’s opinion, those vermin are: communists, marxists, fascists and radical left thugs who…

I am a Christian, saved at age 27, still alive and kickin' at 72. My wife and I have had a very satisfying and productive life, raising three young'uns who attended Christian elementary school, public high school and two major universities. I concur with your assessment of the Christian faith…

I left Louisiana in broad daylight; back in ’73 it was. I was a clueless English major LSU grad, still wet behind the years with an untamed urge to experience the good life. California, where everything was hap’nin, was too far away. …

This visitor from the Southland finds a reverent fascination while walking in Boston, a metropolis that exudes profound historicity across a New England land/city/scape expanding southward from Lexington and Concord down to Dorchester and beyond. I mean, quite significant in the memory of this ole baby boomer was a certain…

While visiting Chicago, I was inspired by Carl Sandberg’s classic poem, composed in 1916. Sitting on a bench, Chicago River in front of me, Chicago Tribune behind, surrounded by fellow travelers like me, I began pecking at the Sandberg inspiration, with maybe an idea for a poetic update. . . …

After hitler’s third reich had attempted to extinguish the Hebrew race, the Jews who had survived that Holocaust had nowhere to go. . . except their ancient homeland. They had established an ancient homeland under the leadership of Moses, about 3000 years ago. In the mid-1940’s, those European Israelites who…

An old story has passed down from the history of the ancient Roman empire: while the ancient city of Rome went up in flames, the emperor Nero “fiddled while Rome burned.” That may true; or it may not be. But we do know, according to the ancient Roman historian Tacitus…