Tribute to Joyce Kilmer. Do something for yourself and others too The more you plant the better you do I’m talking about trees that clean the air They make for better health here and everywhere So plant a tree or two to show you care The shade they provide from the sun is free There […]
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union — like most communist parties — came to power as the great defender of workers. In reality, the Soviet Communist Party didn’t give a hoot about Russian workers. The party was nothing more than a totalitarian organization that used workers to gain power — and then suppressed the […]
Pledge allegiance to America “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands — one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” This pledge was pinned in 1892, by Francis Bellamy, an American editor and clergyman. I pray that this pledge […]
North Carolina teachers put in hundreds of hours into their profession. Their work extends far outside the walls of a classroom; they support our state’s children at sports games, band performances, and church programs. They are the glue that holds our schools and communities together. But right now, teachers in North Carolina are overworked, underpaid, […]
On Palm Sunday, April 7, 1968, a young, poorly-prepared (his description) college student got up to preach in a small church in a small North Carolina town. Three days earlier, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis. The young man’s sermon was about reconciliation and, according to him, “I didn’t have a […]
Many conversations about current issues involve various forms of the same question. How can they —meaning either the left, the Cooper Administration, or the Biden Administration —believe that what they are trying to do will be good for our nation? Of course that question is not unique to this generation. Opposing political factions have always […]
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