Cigar smoking is as much about ritual as flavor. The cutting of the tip, the perfect light, and production of a good, symmetrical ash are part of the experience. Amateurs smoke too quickly, produce a hotter burn, and destroy the flavor. A cigar must be savored, slowly.
Read More »The Leak
Most American women, born in the post-Roe world, will now face a reality that sent their mothers and grandmothers to illegal abortion providers before the 1973 court decision.
Read More »Hijacking for Jesus
How quick some Christians are to claim victimhood. Meanwhile, non-Christians understand the dominant religious culture has no hesitation in exercising its privilege at our expense.
Read More »On Patriotism
Thoughts of patriotism – and its cousin, nationalism – have been on my mind lately as I watch events unfold in Russia and Ukraine, and in the U.S.
Read More »When We Seek Common Ground Who Loses?
But I must respect her effort to be thoughtful and inclusive in her April 14 column, “Americans having a hard time finding common ground these days.”
Read More »Easter Memories
As a child, I knew more about Easter than I knew about Passover.
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