Blessings in Disaster
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers…Read more →
Articles Written By: R. A. Burgener
September 11th – Some Thoughts
Sorry for the delay, I was working on my post for Monday and it suddenly hit a brick wall. Sometimes that happens, I get writing something and it just fades…Read more →
Syria, 9-11 and Growth
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”“A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interests in…Read more →
Labor Day, The Secret, and Today’s Labor
Monday, my usual day off, but it is also one of those Monday holidays, Labor Day (sorry Phyllis, it has nothing to do with childbirth), so I figured my schedule…Read more →
A Eulogy for Ms. Birdie
OK, this is not the blog entry I was planning to write today, I will finish and publish it later, but today, I am in a dark space, I saw…Read more →
Is Gay the new Jew?
Not long ago, while DOMA and California's Prop. 8 were being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, there was also a collection of stories in the news from around the…Read more →
Judas Iscariot & Adolf Hitler
“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible…Read more →
Fear and Laughter in the Apocalypse
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church on the northern edge of the Bible Belt, St. Louis, Missouri. Sometime in the late 70's, I was introduced to the Christian…Read more →
A Constitutional Preamble for the 21st Century
Today is the 4th of July, also known as Independence Day.Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption…Read more →
How “Religion” can save the world
The current destruction of the world as we know it IS actually due to our turning our backs on Religion and/or God. OK, I will be the first to admit…Read more →