I first encountered U2 as a college freshman in 1983, walking across the LSU quadrangle on my way to class. I came upon a spray-painted logo on the concrete, all illicit excitement: two characters, “U2,” encircled. There was an economy to it. Nothing elaborate. Just a circle, carefully kept round, and those two characters renderedContinueContinue reading “U2 at Fifty”
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A Headline, a Rabbit Hole, and the Upper Room
I wasn’t looking for a theology lesson this morning. Just sitting in the recliner in the living room, cats sleeping in morning sun through the windows, the new normal now while we’re scrolling. Outside, the pines are still damp from the rain yesterday. Then a Newsweek headline stopped me cold: a Catholic group called theContinueContinue reading “A Headline, a Rabbit Hole, and the Upper Room”
Stagger Lee Was a What?
A childhood song, a Christmas Eve shooting, and a Stetson hat that started it all I must have been seven or eight the first time I heard it. Maybe younger. My mother had the radio going… she usually did. And this thing came on with a groove that just grabbed you. Something about a clearContinueContinue reading “Stagger Lee Was a What?”
FROM THE WEB: The Lunar Flyby and the Crucifixion – Probe Ministries
An interesting intersection of two of my favorite subjects… Click the link below to read more. The Artemis lunar flyby on April 6, 2026 included a fully scheduled 40-minute loss of communication between the astronauts and NASA. Radio signals between the Source: The Lunar Flyby and the Crucifixion – Probe Ministries
Early Waters: First Pages of ‘The Gales of November’
When I was writing a commemorative post about the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I stumbled across a new book on the subject. That put me in a bit of a quandary: since retiring, I’ve been trying to downsize my personal library from four six-foot bookcases to two. Ouch! If you’re a bookworm, you knowContinueContinue reading “Early Waters: First Pages of ‘The Gales of November’”