I knew better…

Well my readers, it is my fault, I knew better. It was on this very day last year that I posted the essay Accepting God's Will as a Blogger in which I formally ceased blogging. I still believe what I wrote then. And yet, I returned to blogging. Silly me. First, around May, I started …

Do You Want Her Body or Her Soul?

I just wanted to share a thought with my readers on this Thanksgiving morning. A few years ago a friend from North Carolina shared an analogy with me. I think it may have been in article comments somewhere, or it may have been via an email. Perhaps he has shared this analogy with others. I …

Prayers for Jerusalem (and Babylon)

Today I would like to do a brief scriptural analysis of the oft misquoted *pray for Israel* mantra that evangelicals mindlessly repeat. What does it actually say? What is the context? And is there a near identical exhortation to pray for Babylon? Read on... One scripture often referenced is Psalms 122:6 which states: "Pray for …

Loose our blessing?

In the lead up to the current Israeli assault on Gaza I saw a short clip of John Hagee at his "A Night to Honor Israel" rally held on October 22. The wacky, blubberous, false teacher urged a preemptive American attack upon Iran, spoke falsely about God's covenants, and declared that "What you do to …

Thoughts on Israel, Gaza, Jews, and Christianity

We live in a dark time. I wish to make a few comments on the current events in Gaza. I submitted a slightly different (shorter and milder) version of this article to a different website which declined to publish it. So here is the full octane version for my dedicated readers at GKS. The perennial …

*Where Bison Roamed* in print and my future writing

Hello my readers at GKS. I have just published a new 67 page paperback book titled Where Bison Roamed. It is a collection of ten essays on regional history, of southern Indiana and Kentucky. But it is not the Remembering Kentuckiana project that I had previously announced... The internet is not permanent. In one sense, …

Accepting God’s Will as a Blogger

Well, I obviously did not post anything here at GKS last month. I took a sixty day vacation from blogging to consider what (if any) purpose this blog still has. In just over five years I have made 146 posts here at GKS. That is a lot of words. Persistence is a virtue, if done …

History up in Flames: George Rogers Clark’s cabin at the Falls of the Ohio

I remember the first time I visited the reconstruction of George Rogers Clark’s cabin on Clark’s Point, on a bluff overlooking the Ohio River and the skyline of Louisville. It was a cool day in early 2016 and I was quite excited to find the site. The cabin site is part of the Falls of …

Churches, Kinism, and the Great Replacement Theory

This July I walked through the book aisle at my local Walmart, the only one in my rural county. I saw one book about the 1619 Project, four detailing Juneteenth, and two teaching little Black children to love their blackness. How many books in that aisle were biographies of America's early White leaders, lauding Southern …

The Cord

It was back in July, at an Amish sawmill a few miles from me. I was there to order some rough cut (aka not planed smooth) green lumber for a project on my homestead. Local cut poplar boards to redo an old building I have. There were sheaves of wheat stacked in a field visible …