Putin’s Holy War

Yep, you heard me… there are several of New Testament epistles that were written by Paul, but there are also a few that were attributed to Paul that do not fit several markers of Paul’s style of writing, use of grammar, and historicity… according to current theological studies. GASP!!! Yeah…

Or… how your skewed view of biblical interpretation is not an overarching Christ-centric worldview Photo credit: Unsplash Yes, I meant to say “skewed”. That picture above… that’s a typical Bible study venue. What it is not, is theology. Just because you read the Bible in a way that only confirms…

Photo Credit: Anna Shvets on Pexels When you arrive to the Emergency Room with shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, some fever, coughing, and other COVID-19 associated symptoms, please leave your Q-Anon, MAGA thoughts of folk remedies at the door. An older gentleman comes into our E.R. this past week. He…

Thanks to the algorithms of Medium, I lost a story I was reading in which the author states that evolutionism and an idea of the human soul are quite exclusive to one another. The premise, as I read it, was that you could espouse one but not the other. Either…

Come November, the ground will be covered with dark plates of pecan husks… the former cocoons of life-giving fruit of the tree. Today, the pecan husks are green, bulging with the nut inside, clinging to the smaller branches of the 100 year old tree just off the front porch. …

Do you even remember why the United States military was in Afghanistan? It’s been 20 years and trillions of dollars behind us at this point. Some call it a scam of the U.S. government, a profiteering racket of the military industrial complex. Didn’t this thing start in Iraq when Suddam…

RODNAE Productions on Pexels Yesterday was a busy day at the ambulance service for which I work. I just want to say: People know. They know Covid infection is real. They know it is highly transmissible. They know that the hospitals (ER and inpatient) are full. And when called out…

This past week, my partner and I were dispatched through EMS on a call to assist a patient who could not get up off the floor after sliding off the bed. We call this a “lift assist”, and normally this call will be classified as a refusal for treatment and…

Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash The Apocalypse. No matter your thought on the subject (which generally, inherently conjures a vehement religious fomenting of some giant, cosmological scale), I’m personally going to give it a pretty good chance of occurring. Please allow me to differentiate between two modern meanings of “apocalypse”…