Thinking Upward Blog

Thursday, October 31, 2024

You’ll Get A Charge Out Of This

My daughter Moira and I were chatting recently. Music is her native language. She told me an amazing fact—how flowers sing to bees! Let me share it with you. Springtime, after all, is busy bee time. In the Oct 28, 2022...

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Thursday, October 17, 2024

The Numbers Don’t Add Up

Don’t confuse me with a math geek. But even with my schoolhouse arithmetic, the numbers I hear on a regular basis don’t add up. Here’s a sobering number from the Economic Policy Institute. Globalizing our economy (shipping jobs overseas) has cost...

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

What’s Up? Heaven, Of Course

Who doesn’t enjoy strolling through an award-winning garden or touring historic mansions like Vizcaya in Coconut Grove, Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or the du Pont Chateaux in the Brandywine Valley—all the time thankful you don’t pay for the upkeep! Could...

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Five Smooth Stones

Evil is on the loose. Goliath-like, it stands across the valley and mocks our once-civilized society. Since we’ve rejected the Bible’s God for our own selfish ways, it laughs at our attempts to salvage the benefits of a Christian worldview...

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Thursday, September 5, 2024

Life, eh?

I was born in the deep south—of Canada, that is—although I’m an American citizen now, having lived here much of my life.  Some people spell Canada like this: C eh? N eh? D eh? We’re often betrayed by our habit of...

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Thursday, August 22, 2024

I Got Stoned In Bethlehem

It’s not what you may think. I was, in fact, leading a tour of the Holy Land. We had just visited the Shepherds’ Fields on the outskirts of Bethlehem. The tour bus mistakenly traveled back up the same road, thus...

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

The Ultimate Bullet Points

There’s no question there are many questions about the events that unfolded in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.  What was the shooter’s motive to kill the former President? How did the Secret Service allow him to get a rifle onto a...

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

The Old Deluder Is Still At It

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