(NOTE: I posted this column on February 22, 2023. With the movie "Sound of Freedom," timing is everything, and this is a good time republish a best-of..)
"Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted and You delivered them.. Be not far from us, for trouble is near." – Psalm 22
"I WILL FEAR NO EVIL." – Psalm 23
HALELULIA, another fourth of July! This will be a short column because l broke left arm and can t type. I just want to say thanks to those who read my previous "Who stopped the rain" column. Our food supply depends on rain in due season, and we re not out of the woods yet.
Originally published March 27, 2013)
"We are now in Connecticut, and never out of sight of a house. I feel as if there had been religion in this country once, and there may have been a praying ministry and people there, but I fear they are all now dead." – a visitor to New England (quoted in "The Light and the Glory")
[Originally published November 9, 2012]
"A nation that expects to be ignorant and free is a nation that never was and never will be." — T. Jefferson
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO UTOPIA. Alexis de Tocqueville put it this way: