President Trump and Melania deplane Air Force One at McCarran International and are whisked away in a black bulletproof limo to a staging area at the Trump Hotel. The crowd cheers as he enters. He raises both hands and smiles. He is wearing the same outfit he wore at the Puerto Rico news conference. He shakes a few hands and sits at the center of a long table, flanked by his wife in dark sunglasses, the Governor of Nevada, the Las…
– Darkness creeps in on cat’s paws and roots in the hearts of the weak. There it accumulates and bides its time festering as indifference. “It’s ok, it’s just a little violence/lie/bullying/greed/rape,” it whispers, as it waits for a signal to lash out. We are all susceptible as these concepts swirl around us in popular culture. Be vigilant against consuming even the most innocuous forms of darkness. Identify it, name it, and wrap it in chains. That’s the only way we…
Every crime committed by anyone anywhere in the world is based in the idea of selfishness. Bank robbery: I want money. Murder: I want someone gone. Running a red light: I want to be on time. Stealing a loaf of bread for a hungry child: I want to end that child’s hunger. Regardless of its degree, all crime is an act of selfishness. Think about that. No seriously, think about it. Accept it. Selfishness is the gateway to indifference. Indifference…
I lived in Houston long enough to know that Texans are some of the most compassionate people anywhere. Sure, they have backward politics (to me), but they wear their passion for “being Texan” on their sleeves. We moved to Houston when I started 10th grade, after a year in Louisiana (moving there right after I started 9th grade in Florida). I learned right away that Texans will take you in as one of their own if you’re willing to let…
Imagine walking out your door each day to face a world where you’re looked down upon considered dangerous untrustworthy and criminal all because the color of your skin. – Black people in America do this every waking day enduring the ignorance of hundreds of years and across generations. – Oppressed upon arrival suppressed at the voting booth made to sit at the back of the bus segregated lynched so that people with lighter skin can feel safe and superior. –…
Matthew 6:24 is a prominent driver in my novel. It basically says you can’t serve both money and God. It doesn’t matter whether you’re agnostic or atheist. That’s not the point. To prove it, replace God with Mankind–or anything “good” in the same context that the idea of God is “good.” The rule from this verse in the bible still applies. What happens when we make money more important than God or people or anything “good” is that we literally…
