Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

Life’s too short to sit around and listen to angry people all the time – don’t you agree? I find too much time in the aura of anybody’s anger only serves to cast a dour attitude on me, and I’m worth more than that.

In the brisk evening of December 16, 1773, a number of yahoos fueled with rage toward the government-sanctioned corporate control over their lives by the East India Company, and perhaps fueled in no small part by Sam Adams, dumped that company’s cargo of tea into the Boston Harbor.
King George was heavily invested in the East [...]

We are very much socialist in the sense that we have given our corporations the means to distribute public property as they see fit; it was never meant for common people to enjoy the fruits, any more than the common people enjoyed the fruits of any other corrupt socialist government.

Another American curiosity was brought to our attention from people in every place we visited where it became a topic of discussion. “The Constitution of the United States of America is the greatest document ever written,”

A good friend of mine, fearing I’d slipped a bit too far from my conservative West Michigan roots during the course of our time in other countries, emailed me a link to a transcript from yesterday’s Rush Limbaugh gospel service. Rush addressed a quote by John Adams: “We have no government armed with the power [...]

We all know that the minute a new car leaves the lot with a new owner, the amount of money that car trades for takes a noticeable hit. It is the same piece of machinery it was only moments before, nothing has changed in the value of that car, in the physical components that cause [...]

“You’re going to a lot of places where they don’t value human life like we do.”
Nobody, least of all me, with my conservative Republican roots, my Reformed religion, and my resistance to change, could foresee the unintended truth of that statement.  A statement we heard on numerous occasions as we prepared for our journey.
We [...]