Click to read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 5 in the “Humanity, Not Quite Ready for Civilization” series.   Enemies. Imagine a world without them. Yeah, that’s usually how most genocides start. . …   Have you ever noticed that humans seem to need enemies? How, even in relatively peaceful conditions, we hominids go far […]

    Money, Mammon, Meaning & the Musings of Robert Frost (CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE)       There is little doubt what Jesus meant when he lectured from the hillside that money is the root of all evil. Wait a second—don’t make any memes based on that quite yet. …       August […]

  Click to read Parts 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the “Humanity, Not Quite Ready for Civilization” series.   Have you ever stopped to ask yourself what Civilization means?   Nobel Peace laureate and philosopher Albert Schweitzer did. In his book, The Philosophy of Civilization, the great thinker writes: “We have drifted out of the […]

  An address presented at the Take the Flag Down South Carolina Unity Festival, held upon the South Carolina State House Grounds on Independence Day 2015   I stand before you, honored and humbled that you would hear my words. If I have a title worth mentioning, it is “father of a young South Carolinian.” […]