Author Archives: Steve Willis
Here once again, I am presenting a story I have not written. However, it is so profoundly moving that, no matter how many times I’ve read it over the years, I cannot finish reading it except through tears. Given the holiday season, I thought it appropriate to share it with you at this time. Read and be changed!… Read More »
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. Smoked turkey, sweet potato pie, and a panoply of my wife’s amazing side dishes are on the menu. Today, I read the following post on Facebook and was so moved by it, that it will be the entire content of this article. I hope and pray this impacts your life for His Kingdom and… Read More »
A couple of phrases have arisen of late within modern pop culture and political discourse. Those phrases are “speaking your truth” and “speaking truth to power.” So let’s dig into the concept of “truth” and see what we discover. Objective Truth The subtitle here is actually repetitively redundant. Truth IS objective. There is no “my” truth or “your”… Read More »
We are in for a real treat! I first met then-17-year-old Gail upon my return to El Paso, Texas in late 1975 soon after I was discharged from the US Army. Though we had lived in adjacent subdivisions and attended the same elementary school during our childhood, due to various circumstances we had never crossed paths before that.… Read More »
For those of you who haven’t read my bio here at Miscellaneous Ramblings, I was born in El Paso, Texas, as was my mother, my half-sister, my aunt, and most of my cousins. I spent my childhood and tween years there before departing for Northern California with my parents as an early teenager. I later returned as an… Read More »
What is Secular Humanism? Point of fact: secular humanism is a religion in its own right. Surprised? I was, too, when I stumbled across an article mentioning how the United States Supreme Court had declared it as such in the 1961 case of Torcaso v. Watkins (367 U.S. 488). “Man is the measure of himself” as expressed visually… Read More »
