You may be astonished, as I have been, to learn that the failure rate beyond high school and beyond college is much greater than it is in matriculation through those institutions. Endless studies point out how much trouble there is with formal education today … with great numbers of high school students not being college-ready…
Is Your Dream BIG Enough? This is America! The land of Dreams! How BIG is YOUR Dream? For the Children’s Sermonette, the pastor asked the kids: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Not everybody had an answer – it’s a big question for 5-10 year olds. However, a few did: Jackson…
What is your Battle Cry … your “Call to the Post” … your absolute imperative … your “Call to Action” … when important stuff needs to get done? What gets you off the dime and into serviceable action? What turns your “motor” on? What “Battle Cry” gets your heart pounding, your circulation going, and your…
What differentiates the “human being” from non-human beings? Reason enough to ask comes from both historical record and the daily account of man’s blatant inhuman behavior, reflecting an unchecked rush toward satisfaction of “animal appetites”. Consider the “seven deadly vices” as ingrained animal kingdom characteristics which are, of course, markedly advanced in the human: …
Perhaps I was doomed to be an “Odd Fellow” from the start. My father was a card-carrying member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. (Yes, it’s a real organization! http://www.ioof.org/) But, quite apart from this formal association, he did a lot of “odd” things informally … like keeping two sets of books as an…