Author name: ryan

I just lost badly last month to a friend whom I play checkers with for a third time.  Meet Mr. Robert King, resident of a local nursing home here in Northeast Alabama.  The important thing about Mr. King is that he dropped out of school before the ninth grade and he is illiterate.  I have […]

It’s assumed by conspiracy theory driven, jealous culture warriors that liberal Hollywood entertainers are sequestered in all ways from Donald Trump.  It stands to reason, after all, since politicians turned from entertainment; like Trump, now rage against entertainment based ‘liberalism’- they never rub elbows with those hated on society’s opposite bank.  Saturday Night Live, has

In June of 2021, I’d been a member of a country club in my hometown of Gadsden for only two months. Per tradition, its pool had opened on Memorial Day weekend. Growing up with it, the ‘club’ was a legacy passed down four generations. Having left for college and having lived in other cities, I

Go out for a drive to run any errand for an appointment, work or social function. Within a minute or two you may witness: Drivers riding your bumper when you are in the right lane going the speed limit (it’s illegal to also do it in the passing lane also) someone behind honking the horn

Turn on the television, only if you feel like throwing up. Open up your laptops, if you’re begging for a migraine. Without wanting any of it, we’re all subjected to the stench of yellow journalism. Anytime we don’t want it, we get to know which celebrity had another implant. Which athlete just proposed to their

The glorious reality about living in America is our First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Yet, the most tragic and debasing dynamic about living here is the belief everyone has a right to be heard! People can hear an obnoxious alarm in the morning and shut it off. They can hear the shriek of

Every now and then the world witnesses the pinnacle of the proverbial iceberg of mysoginistic based violence metted out in public, as if it’s a script from some deranged teleplay. As investigations commence we later learn that the perpetrator had produced some manifesto about struggling with rejection from the opposite sex, finally becoming ‘uncorked.’ Like

How Evangelicals Should View The Matter When we yield to ‘authority’ it’s better to see it as obeying laws in general. Always putting other citizens first in humility: “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to

Now that I’ve laid out the logic behind the notion that certain elected positions have authority over citizens, I’m going to present arguments against it in this morning’s post. My thesis today is where I marry a biblical perspective with a legal and technical one. Unfortunately, like many things in life it may confound the

In the last article I discussed what political offices could be viewed as having authority over citizenry that evangelicals often refer to. In today’s article I’m going to pin point those offices where logic would state no or very little authority over a constituency with reasons for the argument. Mayors: When it comes to local