Arnie (not his real name) has been the sole student of my course on effective prayer . Sunday after church he told me he’d found a couple...

Bookmarks: A job at Popeye’s • Animal souls • ———— ♦ ———— A full-time minimum-wage job won’t get you a 1-bedroom apartment anywhere in...

Grateful as I am for air conditioning, Baltimore’s current heat wave brought this post to mind, and it may be good to re-blog it just...

Bookmarks: Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness • McDonald’s issues again • Carter Scott update ———— ♦ ————...

Saturday  2015-05-02 A third phase has begun, with yesterday’s filing of charges against the six officers involved in Freddie Gray’s...

As of Wednesday 04/29/15, I am beginning a new post (compare last Monday’s ), as events prior to Monday afternoon 04/27/15 could be...

Below appears the syllabus for the course on prayer that I’m teaching at my church.  Today we completed Week 2....

As of Monday, 04/27/15, let me say this.  We had five days of completely orderly demonstrations.  Only after that did the interlopers...

Isaiah 25: 6On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food...

Bookmarks: Charles Bothuell update  • Gwyneth Paltrow’s food stamps demonstration • About mental illness: Read this. • Woman accused of...

Bookmarks: Poor children have smaller brains ———— ♦ ———— New brain science shows poor kids have smaller brains than affluent kids I...

From my diary for Friday 2015-05-01: Ta-Nehisi Coates has had two “provocative” HuffPost columns in two days.  Wednesday she decried...

… if you’ve never lived here, if you’ve never worked here … Now that Baltimore is the center of national media attention, an endless...

Bookmarks: Sterling’s companion done in by her own words, recordings • These devastating videos shatter every stereotype about the...

… apparently went just as anticipated. City leaders call on black men to mentor youths and stop the violence “The usual suspects” — those...

Random Words Just because man has created religions that separate us on earth, does not mean it separates God or that it separates us...

Bookmarks: Man’s best friend? • Recent child abuse cases • Do food stamps subsidize McDonald’s? ———— ♦ ———— Dogs Do Love Their Owners:...

In recent weeks it has been a matter of some chagrin to me that my Yahoo! News feed keeps bringing articles from major outlets that prove...

Report: Sandtown-Winchester leads state in number of people incarcerated This report provides real, hard numbers as to how much it...

Bookmarks: The wonder drug • Phylicia Barnes update • The heckler’s veto again ———— ♦ ———— 2015-03-04. I’ve wanted to pose that...