Real Clear Truth

A professor I know in Wisconsin has started a project for Christians to engage in dialogs on topics outside the normal range of issues typically discussed in churches. Her website describes it this way:
The GROUNDINGS PROJECT seeks to stimulate dialog, inspiration and action among Christian artists as we walk together in an authentic pursuit [...]

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I’ve not had time to post lately because the company I have worked for for seventeen years in Tucson was acquired and the new owners recently announced plans to relocate us to the San Jose area. Each employee has a limited time to decide if we will accept their relocation offer and that means I [...]

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Peggy Noonan’s column today in the Wall Street Journal is about Hillary’s “Bosnia” story, but it struck me more as the marking point of the end of her campaign. Hilary has lost to Obama. The Rev. Wright story didn’t turn the tide and now even her supporters are realizing that her [...]

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There has been a big to-do over what former vice-presidential candidate and Hillary Clinton supporter, Geraldine Ferraro said recently about Barack Obama. Here’s the way the Wall Street Journal put it (see here):
In recent days, the Obama camp has been demanding an apology from Geraldine Ferraro, the former Vice Presidential candidate and current Hillary Clinton [...]

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The exceptional military historian Victor Davis Hanson has written an excellent column today in National Review that parallels some of what I wrote yesterday on Iraq — albeit with much nicer prose.
Here is an excerpt from: Mirror, Mirror… Looking at Iraq
What is never discussed is how many Islamists flocked to Iraq, determined to defeat the [...]

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One of the reasons I named my blog “RealClearTruth” is because I have a strong desire to make complex issues clear, to dig down to the essential elements in order to bring clarity and make it easier to determine what should be done. In this regard, I have not been satisfied with any of the [...]

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I went hiking at Gates Pass in the Tucson Mountains west of downtown Tucson on the weekend. The weather was beautiful, although not too many flowers were out yet at this location.

I climbed up the steep mountain slopes where there are no trails, as I did when I first arrived in Tucson back in 1978.

This [...]

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I’ve always loved a particular chapter from David Matthews, “I Saw the Welsh Revival”, taken from here, and commented on below one part at a time.
Now, it’s not easy to describe a revival. As Matthews says at the end of this chapter, “one realizes the limitations of his human vocabulary when attempting to describe these [...]

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Here are two more photos I took while in Hawaii. I also hope to take some pictures tomorrow of the wild flowers in Tucson, perhaps near Picacho peak, as they say they are the best we’ve seen in the last ten years.
So stay tuned…

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This is part 3 in a series looking into the question of whether or not our soul and spirit are two distinct and separate “components” of our lives. The next verse I looked at was this one:
1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from [...]

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Let’s look at another verse in the discussion of “spirit, soul and body”:
Luke 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Is this saying that we need emulate Jesus and grow the distinct part of us that we call our “spirit”?
Well, I take [...]

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I was unable to keep up with my blogging this week because I have been involved in a separate discussion. However, that discussion relates to something I recently wrote in my article The Code Breakers, pertaining to the subject of one’s “spirit, soul and body”:
But this is where we often miss what was truly unique [...]

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