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Jan 305 min read
Vienna Waits For You
Look on the map and you'll see Vienna is exactly in the middle of Europe. Yes, Vienna, as in the Vienna Waltz, the Vienna hot dog,...
Jan 172 min read
PEACE THROUGH COMPASSIONATE JUSTICE*
At the outset of the new year, assessments of global security warn that conflict is spreading across more countries worldwide and a new...
Oct 18, 20242 min read
WINNING ELECTIONS WITH VOICES OF TRUTH
As the elected president off Moldova -- one of Europe's poorest countries -- Maia Sandu often uses part of her day to rebut online...
Oct 14, 20242 min read
UKRAINE'S HIGH GROUND INSIDE RUSSIA
After its surprising but effective military incursion into Russia in August, Ukraine has shown why it is not really seeking territorial...
Sep 3, 20245 min read
Book Review: Rivers of Power
Throughout history rivers have been the lifeline of civilization. In "Rivers of Power" author and geophysicist Laurence Smith shows how...
Jul 27, 20249 min read
John, Paul, James & Peter
While their names may not roll off the tongue with the familiarity of John, Paul, George and Ringo--the Fab Four Beatles--in their day...
Jul 13, 20245 min read
Three Wise Men
The Three Wise Men of yore were, of course, the Three Wise Men from the east who came to Bethlehem bearing gifts for the new-born Jesus. ...
May 8, 20246 min read
Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe
Who knew? Who knew that the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe, so deeply associated with christianity, were in fact inspired by Islamic...
Mar 23, 202419 min read
The Four Gospels
The four Gospels are the most important books in the Bible, the culmination of biblical prophecy dating from the days of Moses. All the...
Dec 5, 202319 min read
Paul's Church Without Wrinkle
All Bible scholars agree: without the missionary work of the Apostle Paul, Christianity would not have survived the First Century AD, as...
Nov 29, 20235 min read
Forging a New Nation
It was the beginning of new era in the history of mankind. An otherwise ordinary man in ancient Egypt named Moses, had a meeting with...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
Book Review—The Anatomy of Peace—An Antidote to War
While this book is relatively short (224 pages) and easy to read, the ideas are not simple and require thought and ongoing...
Nov 11, 20234 min read
Men's & Women's Inequality
Can the world know lasting peace without equality between men and women? “Sex and World Peace,” by four acclaimed scholars (Valerie M....
Nov 4, 20233 min read
The Greatest Thing in the World
"I was staying with a party of friends in a country house during my visit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around the...
Oct 17, 20231 min read
A kingdom not of this world
It seems ironic, but most of all very cruel, that there should be war once again in the Holy Land; that in these villages, towns and...
May 1, 20233 min read
Book Review—The Making of a Quagmire
When I was in college as in the early-1970s, the the heroes of the Journalism Department were Vietnam reporters Neil Sheehan, Malcolm...
Apr 14, 20237 min read
Domes: Easy When You Know How
In the second century A.D., Roman emperor Hadrian commissioned the building of a temple to commemorate the gods of all the planets. Mind...
Apr 14, 20232 min read
Amazon Review—The Pantheon—Father of Domes
The Pantheon is brilliant in its simplicity, a combining of the circle and square, with man as part of the equation. “The Pantheon:...
Apr 13, 20235 min read
Brunelleschi's Dome -- a Monument to Optimism
It was some contest, and it was some prize. The contest was finding a way to stand an egg on its end. The prize was designing what...
Mar 24, 20233 min read
Book Review—The Hundred-Year Marathon—"China’s Dream is America’s Nightmare"
In some ways this book is as fantastical as “The Travels of Marco Polo.” It’s a disturbing account of the Chinese Communist Party’s...
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