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Saints Steadfast to the End

If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood · Who you gon’ call? (Ghostbusters!) If there’s somethin’ weird, and it don’t look good. Who you gon’ call? (Ghostbusters!).  Well Halloween’s over and the vampires, skeletons and ghosts have put their costumes away…

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An Eruption of Prayer

It has oft been said that there are no atheists in foxholes.  When shells are bursting all around, the air is rife with prayer every bit as with smoke.  Deafening explosions and smell of cordite bring forth from the human…

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Love in A Leprous Time

In 1985 the noted Columbian novelist, Gabriel García Márquez wrote Love in the Time of Cholera.  The story is set in an un-named, steamy South American country at the time beset by multiple outbreaks of cholera.[1] The main characters are…

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On Keeping the Main Thing, the Main Thing

Looking at our president’s business history, I remember telling my wife that we could be a lot richer if I followed his example.  First, stiff all the workers and if they complained, threaten them with massive lawsuits.  Secondly, strip all…

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To Seek the Lost and Lonely

On some days when I would arrive at the Long Beach office of our family construction company, which I helped my dad run, I would find him to be in an absolute tizzy, frantically hunting for his hearing-aids he had…

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