“If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have your duty by yourself and by your country. Hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of.” These words from 1906, written by Mark Twain in Glances at History, have come alive again…

Sunscreen—I really don’t like using it. It has an undefinable smell, like unpronounceable chemicals and warm, fly-filled, fruit salad. It also coats you in this greasy film that makes you feel like you’ve overnighted in a roach motel. Those may be my opinions on the matter, but science is not even conclusive that it actually prevents cancer. Furthermore there is evidence to…

There are a lot of things we can like about the Bible. We can talk about its holy status or the harmony with which it was written. I like the humanity of it. The writers of its pages did not spare the details of man’s humanity. Characters were described with imperfections and all, and we learn from these literary warts. One event…

Clickbait! You’ve all seen it while browsing the web or scrolling through Facebook. It is a tagline or a picture with just enough sensationalism and credibility to raise your curiosity and make you click. It is a technique used to generate revenue in advertising. Generally with clickbait, the information is not reliable. This kind of advertising has its roots in what is…

Harrison Odjegba Okene is not a name you would know. On May 26, 2015, he was serving as a cook on a tugboat, the Jackson-4, off the coast of Nigeria. At 4:30 a.m. that morning, the tugboat overturned and sank 98 feet to the ocean floor. Harrison found himself trapped in an air pocket near the bow of the ship. His 11…

Cade Courtley (former SEAL team leader, author and TV personality) wrote in his book, SEAL Survival Guide, “In military-speak, situational awareness is defined as the ability to identify, process and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening to the team with regard to a mission. More simply, it’s being aware of what is going on around you…These [the unaware]…

A well-known philosopher of our day has this to say about our McDonald’s society. “I’m tired of people acting like they are better than McDonald’s. Okay, you may never set foot in McDonald’s, but you have your own McDonald’s. Maybe instead of ordering a Big Mac you read Us Weekly. That’s still McDonald’s, it’s just served up a little different. Maybe your…

I am a romantic, in the sense that my thoughts of the past are often idealized and void of the riggers and monotony of daily life. I often contemplate living in the 1800s and exploring the western territories with Lewis and Clark. More than anything, I contemplate what it would have been like in the early church in Asia Minor and in…