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About Me

More than anything I enjoy my family time. But I have had a 30 year love of unconventional warfare military history as well. A more recent interest is the Russian Martial Art of Systema. I am a Christian but have not lost that extreme skeptical nature that caused me to hover between atheist and agnostic at one time.
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Belisarius , Thucydides , Stonewall Jackson , Genghis Khan , Sabutai , Skanderbeg , Yermak , BH Liddel Hart , Cyrus the Great , Kierkegaard , Richard Feynman

My Blog

You are that man!

You Are That Man!(A Review of Apologia Pro Vita Sua, by John Newman. Originally written for Amazon.com, August 6, 2008)Every conversion story seems to adhere to common themes. One of those is entailed...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:29:00 GMT

Mary, Mother of God

Mary, Sinless Mother of GodA good friend told me that he had been asked if Mary was always sinless.   He wanted to know what I thought about the topic and how I would respond.   As...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:15:00 GMT

Soundbites

SoundbitesAn election year reminds us of the fondness Americans have for soundbites.   Soundbites are those catchy little phrases politicians use to rally their supporters around a pet issue...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:45:00 GMT

The false dichotomy of the two party system

The Lesser of Two Evils?Every election cycle we Christians start hearing about the lesser of two evils.  It is troubling to me that this seems to imply that there are only two from which to choos...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:38:00 GMT

Lowest Common Essentials

There is a saying among non-Catholic Christians that goes something like, "we basically agree on the essentials." It is an attempt to respond to the obvious disunity among the plethora of denominati...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:49:00 GMT

Contraception, Evil or Hope

Artificial Contraception, The Hope or Evil of Modern Man?Few teachings of the Catholic church seem so maligned as the subject of artificial contraception.   And, as might be expected, few te...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:04:00 GMT

Faith Alone? will you risk eternity on it?

Faith Alone.  Worth Eternity?Recently I have been working on an explanation of how Catholics and Protestants sometimes use the same words but with different meanings.   Faith is one of ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:28:00 GMT

Proud to be Catholic

Catholic Sex Crimes?  "Like a poor marksman, you keep missing the mark!"You have heard all the stories - you cannot turn on the news and miss it.   The Pope's visit only seemed to make ...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 19:15:00 GMT

Thre Tree Should Resemble the Seed

The Tree Should Resemble the Seed in KindThe great theologian, John Newman, in his Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, describes how the seed of all church doctrines was present in the ear...
Posted by on Sun, 18 May 2008 17:43:00 GMT

Saints Alive!

Saints Alive!"Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.  For he is not a God of the dea...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 04:44:00 GMT