Tag: Nuture

• December 26, 2025

  On Dealing with a World Gone Crazy

  ​There’s a story, which may or may not be true, that an old Chinese curse was “May your children be born in interesting times.” The curse was because, goes the story, the yearly chronicles included things like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, peasant rebellions, invasions, plagues and so on. So it meant that may your children suffer disaster.  ​We live in…
• August 16, 2021

  Batching It

  Batching It When I was a small boy, I spent a couple of months every summer with my mother’s parents, in rural Bath County, Virginia. My grandfather was editor of the county’s weekly newspaper, the Bath County Enterprise. My grandmother was a teacher, and had summers off. She had dropped out of college many years…
• July 26, 2021

  Hello world

  I am posting again… Lord God, we thank you for your Word, greatest and most glorious of all that comes to our human life. Every day we want to find more joy in your help, in what you are doing for us. Again and again we feel and rejoice in the new help, new strength,…
• July 20, 2021

  The German Colonial Pacific

  Most people who have read anything about history have learned about colonialism, how several European nations invaded, took over and ran large areas of the world as colonies of various kinds until the middle of the 20th century. Most people who have read anything about colonialism will think of Portugal, Spain, France and above all,…