“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” This quote has been popularized on social media and misattributed and often botched by its users as an accurate account of the history and the potential downfall of society…

Unanswered prayers have become a humbling aspect of my Christian experience. You see, not many of us know how to pray, because, as James states, “You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not…

Coffee, Racism, and Victimhood Mentality “Bro, cant sleep tonight…all this race issue is boiling in my head. Here is an honest one: would u be kind enough to me, to sit down for a coffee and explain what u feel and what is really going on from your perspective? Because I only see what I…

Great. Now that I have your attention I want to make it unmistakably clear that I do not hate white people. Hating anyone is destructive to one’s well-being. I do, however, hold a bitter contempt for people who add pineapple to pizza. These people must have not been hugged enough…

Allow me to be your cicerone through this brief work of my imagination. I want to carry my reader through a myth, a would-be scenario in which postbellum America would reunite as a nation and as a people, devoid of the racial caste that existed before this war and the…

American conservatives are arguing themselves into national ruination. They are presently fighting for a madman’s right to purchase, possess, and kill citizens with weapons they ought never to have been able to obtain in the first place. When an actor, a member of the Hollywood “elite,” so they’re called, stands…

Your thoughts and prayers mean nothing. And I am not being facetious. They are worthless. If I am an atheist and I hear you say to me, or anyone for that matter, that your thoughts and prayers are with me in my pain, I may learn to hate God, the…

I’ve just finished an amazing tale of utmost destitution, of mind, body, and spirit, called Hunger by Norwegian author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Knut Hamsun. This book, his first novel, is the winner of that prize which he received in 1920. The premise of the book follows a…

When we infuse ourselves into a story where we do not belong we disrupt the narrative, interrupt the characters, and disparage the intent of the author of that story. Its structure changes to fit us into a tale, a poem, or a lesson we have no business being connected with…