Back in March i began a concerted effort to drop some weight. Now, like everyone else, i’ve done this before only to regain the weight right back plus more, so i had been looking for something different, as in not a diet, but rather an approach to eating which i could sustain. I started in March weighing 280 lbs. and as of today, i’m at 244. That’s a number i haven’t seen on a scale in about 20 years. Here’s what i want this post to accomplish: Explain the lifestyle change i’m taking Give examples of things which have changed […]
This Sunday is the one when many churches in America conflate Patriotism and Christianity
I want to be very clear that i am patriotic and i am also a Christian. Let me explain what those two things are. Patriotism I believe that our nation as designed by the founding fathers with: separation of powers into three equal branches, a form of republican representation on both the state and federal levels, a structure enabling both individual state’s rights and also an overarching federal union of those states, and with rights for individual citizens as enumerated in our Bill of Rights (and for me, the most important of those rights: separation of church and state along […]