The Progressive “inclusive” Church – what went wrong P.1 :: The Migrants
It’s been years holding back my critiques of my beloved Church. I do love my Church, warts and all. They’re a kind and misguided people who do more harm than good. They’re also helpless lot – they keep making the same arrogant mistakes the Democrats did, and they keep wondering why they’re attriting members and […]
Why Lutheran, not Catholic
I love being a Catholic – I have family in Italy that can trace their roots to the Normans, back to the legendary de Hautfield family filled with Roger II and William the Conquerer and the Count Tancredi of Sicily. The faith was always ever-present and the legends of my heritage keep us stalwart in […]
State of the World. Part 4 – What Comes Next
At some point, there needs to be a “come to Jesus” moment within the Unity Party/Progressives in which they’ll have to forgo the High Language etiquette and engage with reality. I do not think it will be this year, I think it will only happen when academia and religious institutions start shuttering. Then schools. Then […]
State of the World. Part 3 – What Comes Now
Here’s a list of short-term predictions in the next few years 1.) Ukraine and Greenland are traded between America and Russia. Russia has a free hand in central Europe. 2.) The following countries declare nuclear programs and armaments: S. Korea, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Poland, Sweden, Taiwan, Norway, Belgium/Netherlands/Germany do a tie-up on a program, Spain, […]
State of the World. Part 2 – America I guess?
If you want a primer as to where are where we are, Peter Zeihan’s youtube video will give you a clear-eyed understanding from a “Deep State” researcher. Peter is the Deep State you want, BTW. The kind you’d expect running some vital portion of the vast administration, making sure America is OKAY. He’s an unabashed […]
State of the World – Part 1. The 4th Spiritual Cycle of America
In the past 6 years, we’ve incurred a pandemic that scared and killed millions, a 1-2 year lockdown that devastated millions of businesses and personal lives (I should talk about the nurses. The nurses, folks, the nurses never recovered.), we’ve had robust migration that has impacted the balance of cities and communities that already were rocked […]
What is a Monk?
I don’t fully know a monk is. I think it’s a wild, wooley man with a burlap sack mumbling prayers in some desert hut, arguing with God on the spiritual plane while toiling on the physical one. I don’t fully know what one would look like in the 21st century America – but in my mind […]
What is Thank You?
I have a lot of experience raising two children – precisely 5 years with Jacob and almost 8 with Ellie. In the time, whenever we go to a toy shop, a local groceries, or to Target (Monks-in-training need stuff too!) I always tell the kids to say “Thank You”. I heard on an Ezra Klein […]
Monk in Training
The great thing about being a Monk-in-Training (well, at least I am one in my head – I’m told it takes 10 years and I’m only in month 6 so…..I got some time to work on some things), is that there’s a lot of ascetic discipline in the history. There’s fasting and prayers and chants and […]
Grass is green
I had a tough conversation with a manager, talking about a decision from one of his team-members to leave the company and go to a competitor. As I unpacked the reasons given by the team member, I thought “this guy is going to be disappointed with our competitor too…” I’m not trying to be pompous – […]