I’ve looked forward to the 2016 baseball season with great anticipation, and not just the majors, but the minor leagues as well. As I live in the Des Moines area (as some would correctly refer to as the largest small town in the world) there are no professional major league franchises here. Hence, we have a Triple AAA affiliate baseball team: the Iowa Cubs, the minor league farm team for the Chicago Cubs. And, that’s ok. Though major league baseball…..
The Orthodox Church celebrates Easter this Sunday. In Ethiopia, Easter is celebrated more than Christmas and the New Year. It celebrates the reason why Jesus came. Ethiopia has been a Christian nation since approximately 325 A.D., proclaimed as such by King Ezana, though many would claim Christianity in Ethiopia goes back much further. They cite Acts, Chapter 8, where Phillip baptizes the Ethiopian. The Ethiopian in question was actually an Ambassador of the Queen of Ethiopia. He was returning from…..
Check out my interview on “Moving Mountains with Sasha” an internet radio talk/interview show, April 17, 2016. Just google up “Moving Mountains with Sasha” and it will take you straight to her site that will show my interview! Or, go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mountainswithsasha and scroll down to my interview!
When I hear the banter of the latest campaigns blaring across news channels, I shake my head and chuckle at the superficiality of both sides (not “on”, but “of” for such superficiality extends beyond the attacks to the aspirants themselves). Hillary Clinton and her attacks on everybody coincide with such shallow non-answers to the real issues impacting our lives it’s nauseating. I deem it appropriate to bring J.D. Salinger’s words into the discussion at this point. He wrote in Seymour-…..
Author Paul T. Sugg is Today’s Honoree for Tuesday March 15th, 2016 There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers in the world, according to War Child UK. Although the civil war in Uganda has subsided, the psychological effects are still present with these children. Paul T. Sugg, author of “Oracles of an Ethiopian Coffeehouse,” and CEO of AppTech Development International, Inc., has witnessed this brutality first-hand. He has worked in development of Third World countries for more than 40 years. “I…..
The assent up the mountains above Wli, Ghana was leading to more than a stunning panoramic view. It was part of my ascension to a higher level of enlightenment. It was the summer of 1977. I was a volunteer for Operation Crossroads Africa, having spent all of my money intended for law school to pay my expenses for a life changing trip to Africa. I was grasping for a real level of justice, higher than the pseudo-facsimile of same offered…..
Below is information about some of the things that I have experienced in my life. Whether that be mission work or traveling, I want my readers to know some of my past! If you can relate to anything, I would love to hear! I have worked in development in Third World Countries for the most part of 40 years. I built schools in Ghana in 1977 and wrote the aforementioned senior thesis on Cooperatives, African Socialism and Rural Economic Development…..
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