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March 2019

March 13, 2019

Empathy Mining’s Top 10 Most Popular Articles

From time to time, I like to dig back through the Empathy Mining archives and...

February 2019

February 14, 2019

If It’s Not Careful, the Far Left Will Eat Its Own

Lately, there has been a topic frequently churning around in my head. I've written several...

February 08, 2019

An American Tree

I’ve been here for a long time I couldn’t say how long Time means little...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

We Should All Be Ashamed of Ourselves for the Covington Catholic Spectacle–ALL of Us

No laws were broken. Nobody got injured. But there were no winners. There is no...

January 18, 2019

Gotta Give Trump Credit for Helping to Honor His Campaign Promise to Drain the Swamp…But the Joke is on Him

One of the most popular refrains from Donald Trump's campaign was the slogan, "Drain the...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

Is It Time for America to Move to Compulsory Voting?

I was sort of excited at the reports of larger than normal turnouts at the...

September 2018

September 11, 2018

Make Room for Doubt, It’s Not a Weakness

We live in an age where it increasingly feels like everyone has to be right....

June 2018

June 22, 2018

The Coming Civil War

I write this from the cradle of the American Civil War. Just down the road...

March 2018

March 10, 2018

We Need Mister Rogers

Like most people my age, I grew up with Mister Rogers. His show began right...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

The Evolution of Propaganda in America

Propaganda is everywhere. Whenever we turn on our televisions we are confronted with propaganda in...

February 16, 2018

Now, More than Ever, Your Spiritual Gift is Needed

Christians are called upon to be the hands and feet of Jesus. We each are...

January 2018

January 10, 2018

Thomas Jefferson, Perplexing Paradoxical Patriarch (or, Ain’t That America)

The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is upon us and Black History Month is right...

January 10, 2018

Let Us Turn Our Thoughts Today to Martin Luther King

Last year at work, we took a survey to find out whether we had ingrained racial...

January 06, 2018

A Jewish Liberal Snowflake is Reflecting Christ’s Message Better than Most Christians

That is a the photo of Sarah Silverman from her Twitter profile. If you aren't...

January 01, 2018

Did God Place Donald Trump in Power for a Reason?

If you've read any of my writing over the past year and a half, you'll...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

The Hypocrisy Gene

Nothing irritates a hypocrite more than hypocrisy. Perhaps Americans hate hypocrisy so much because it...

December 19, 2017

Right Wing Christians–Even if You’re Right, You’re Wrong

I used to count myself in your number, right wing Christians. I used to buy...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

How Reggie Miller Taught Me to Empathize with Trump Supporters

Like most folks who lived in Indianapolis during the 1990s, I have a soft spot...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

The Tectonics of Rioting

For days, the city was a disaster area. When the news broke, the bubbling magma...

October 23, 2017

The Devaluing of Diversity

I've done a lot of driving around my Hoosier state the last few days. I've covered...

October 03, 2017

Mysterious, Marvelous Grace

Middle school student, Mary, is in trouble. Her teacher has just caught her cheating on...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

5 cards conservatives keep up their sleeves for any discussion on racial problems

The NFL's controversial Take a Knee protests have the nation talking about racial issues. That's...

September 24, 2017

I Choose to Stand Because I Haven’t the Guts to Take a Knee

They are crying out for our great nation to be greater--to be what it is...

September 03, 2017

What a Utah Nurse’s Arrest Reveals About White Privilege

What is different about this case is the sort of people that are outraged by...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

I’ve Had It With the Lost Causers: The Cause of the Civil War Matters

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, historians still debate what...

August 21, 2017

Symptoms Change, Flare Up and Recede, but the Disease Remains the Same

My wife and I had an argument last night. We don't talk often about politics...

August 19, 2017

Blessed are the Peacemakers–a Message for the Resistance

Photo: Washington Star-Bernie Boston (1967) When you see them, it is easy to let rage...

August 18, 2017

The Message about Racism that I Took from a Movie You Probably Didn’t See

Sometime in late 2015, I began to hear a buzz about a Civil War movie...

August 16, 2017

Taking on the Sticky Topic of Removing Confederate Monuments.

The issue on the surface of the terrible events in Charlottesville, Virginia is nothing...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Manifest Destiny-Doing the Unsavory Work of God

The image above is the most famous work of art depicting Manifest Destiny. The John...