So, you want an athlete not just spouting off? ======== NFL tight end Benjamin Watson goes beyond the conventional wisdom By Andrew Branch July 25, 2015 Marriage and race crises haven’t been lost on athletes, but the online world of sound-bite activism was one-sided. Christian athletes largely kept their two cents in their private circles, away from media. ESPN, alternatively, collected the cheers and... Read more
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
Ben Carson and Baltimore
May 6 | Posted by mrossol | ReligionWorth your time to read. ====== Regardless of how Dr. Ben Carson chooses to try to convince Republican voters that he should be their candidate for president, Carson’s personal story is particularly worthy of the attention of all Americans during these troubled times. His story defies much of the conventional wisdom we get from both the left and the right to “explain” the... Read more
St. Patrick, St. Joseph and Irish-Italian Harmony
March 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, ReligionI am Presbyterian. But we protestants and Catholics have many,many more common enemies than we have differences. We need to [quickly] learn how to focus on our commonalities if we are to survive long term. ========== Right after Valentine’s Day, the front window of my Brooklyn home sprouts a field of cardboard shamrocks each year. A statue of St. Patrick appears on... Read more
NFL Star’s take on Ferguson
December 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Racism, ReligionToo few men like this speaking up. ============ I am a BIG fan of New Orleans Saints Tight End Benjamin Watson. Last week, we told you about the Facebook post he wrote that went viral, reaching millions of people, with his thoughts on the Ferguson situation. The popularity of his Facebook post has offered Mr. Watson some special opportunities to reach even more... Read more
A new ‘Religious Test’?
July 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Religion, US ConstitutionSeth Lipsky writing in the New York Post, July 12: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” “No . . . ever . . . any.” It’s not only the most emphatic statement in the entire Constitution but probably in all of American law. . . . [Yet] an advertisement... Read more
Bryan College: Were Adam and Eve real?
May 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ReligionGets to a critical argument… =========== By ALAN BLINDERMAY 20, 2014 DAYTON, Tenn. — William Jennings Bryan earned a permanent place in American history nearly nine decades ago in the Scopes trial, when he stood in a courtroom here and successfully prosecuted a teacher who broke the law by teaching evolution in a public school. While not quite “the fantastic cross between a circus... Read more
