Not all that far from Dallas, someone has erected a very large, very ornate fountain. Right now, it looks like it’s in the middle of nowhere. It’s not exactly nowhere, but it is Fannin county, which isn’t a well-known county* to people who don’t currently live there. The fountain, according to this article (here) is the first… Read more »
Posts By: Sam White
Are Millenials Really Leaving the Church?
It’s happening again. There’s another article going ‘round the internet—especially on Facebook—about how millenials are leaving the church in droves. I would go to all the trouble of looking it up and providing a link to it … but I’m not going to. The reality, as I’ve written before (see here), is that this article gets… Read more »
The Case for a Safe Space
“Safe spaces” are in the news lately. Often, outside the places where they are being held, they are derided as a method of coddling “snowflakes”, i.e. college kids who are biological adults but seem to have the emotional maturity of a stunted Chihuahua. I have to admit: I have done my share of chuckling at… Read more »
Let’s All Go to the Movies … or Not
Speaking of decline, fewer people are going to the movies than in years past. Some people blame this on the quality of movies produced (“Nothing but sequels and remakes! Doesn’t Hollywood have any original ideas?”). This may be a factor, but if you look back at Hollywood’s glory years, you’ll find that they produced some… Read more »
Political Debates are Lousy Theater
Watching the political debates, what little I could stomach, anyway, made me think about what I knew was coming: – Everyone who already supported him was going to say he won. – Everyone who already supported her would say she won. – Almost no minds would be changed. – The media would spin it the… Read more »
God said, “No.”
I had always wanted to be a writer, practically from the first time I learned that one could take those letters we were being taught and shape them into words, which could be gathered together into sentences with which to create stories someone would want to read. So I wrote and I wrote and I… Read more »
Real Life Volcanic Eruption Kills Everyone – Details at 11
The San Andreas fault. Mount St. Helens. The entirety of the Pacific Rim. You don’t have to look very far to see stories of pending alarm about forthcoming earthquakes and/or volcanos. Heck, even Oklahoma is being beset by earthquakes (which may or may not be related to fracking, depending on who is telling the tale)…. Read more »
Why I Prefer the Prequels to Episode 7
OK, I know my title is already causing some readers to object and/or question my sanity. I realized that when I wrote it. I didn’t want to write some cutesy blog where-in I bury the lead somewhere near the bottom. So, just in case there’s some doubt, let me assure you that: –yes, I really… Read more »
Can There Be “Christian Science Fiction”?
The old trope says there’s no such thing as a dumb question, but obviously that’s not true. Questions like the above and “Will government intervention actually lower the cost of college (or anything)?” are patently stupid questions. Yet, we ask them often, mainly in the hopes of starting an argument. I mean, that has to… Read more »
What Was the “Reason for the Season”, Again?
Fill in the blank, “__________ is the reason for the season.” We’ve been conditioned by lapel pins, T-shirts and bumper stickers to say that “Jesus is the reason for the season.” But what if that’s wrong? Now, it came about because people who celebrate Christmas as the birth of Christ perceived that the holiday was… Read more »