Brian’s ravings on a variety of topics – social, political, religious, etc.
As I do research for my Bible Studies and other writing, I frequently find notices such as the one below attached to the Wikipedia article about Rephidim – mentioned in Exodus 17:1-7 as the location of the Israelites’ rebellion against God and Moses because they had not found any water … More…
I recently received a post purporting to be a new “correct” translation of the Lord’s Prayer taken directly from “the original Aramaic.” Regardless of the content of the “prayer,” the provenance of its origins is utterly bogus.
Our church like so many others has lost our first love and is now on the path toward being a zombie church – dead but with a reputation for being alive. What can/should be done?
Think the 2020 presidential election was a disaster? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! Think the Biden presidency is a travesty? Get ready for worse to come. For the time being, former President Donald Trump is the clear leader in the race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Despite The Donald’s … More…
Regardless of one’s political leanings, it is blatantly obvious that the “information” purveyors of the mainstream media never put out the straight poop.
Modern society has raised calling one thing something else to a fine art. We do this for two reasons – to avoid facing facts ourselves, and to mislead or distract our listeners.
Assuming that human science will soon be able to create human clones and/or artificial intelligence equal to or superior to human intelligence, what inalienable rights would such creations inherently possess?
I reflect on my relationship with my father on what would have been his 97th birthday in connection with my own mortality, a dream I had, and the reassurance we find in Psalm 139 on all these things.
Short description of the two aspects of salvation – justification and sanctification – along with my favorite scripture and the Bob Dylan song Pressing On.
I wrote this BriRant as the prairie wind blasted our travel trailer while we camped one evening on our return from the Great Plains to the Great Northwest Woods during our road trip last Autumn. Our time in the Dakotas affected my spirit deeply. History teaches that I am certainly … More…
