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ON 9/11, when the second plane crashed into the tower, I was on the phone with my dad, in our last conversation. He wasn’t on the plane or in the tower. He was in Akron, Ohio getting ready to leave home for hospice. He was dying of lymphoma. …

This coming Friday, the world gets the hardest song I’ve written. It drops to Spotify, Amazon and the rest of the world. Perhaps, it will dissolve into the sea of new songs released that day, never finding a place in anyone’s heart but mine.

WE'RE EXPERIMENTING with adding new Artificial Intelligence music posted directly into The Casual English Bible. Go to Psalm 23 and you’ll find a new, original song inspired by that ancient song. We’re just beginning to put our psalm lyrics to music.

THIRTY-SEVEN IS THE DIVINE NUMBER. I have just 37 more Bible chapters to go, and I’ll be finished with the Beta edition of The Casual English Bible,® from Genesis to Revelation. So, how about a fun song? I think we’re going to be adding some original …

THE MOMENT I DECIDED to give you a short update about where I am and what I have been doing lately, it occurred to me that I am better than God in one way. The reason I know I am is because of something Job wrote. I’ve been paraphrasing the Bible …

MAIZEY, our black lab mix, runs in the backyard with some of our grandkids last summer. WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT in what became today, I laid on the floor face to face with my dying six-year-old black lab, Maizey. I held her cool paws and then her cool …

UNTIL TODAY, I don’t think I’ve ever shed a tear while reading a Bible commentary. I’m 38 pages into David J.A. Clines’s 501-page commentary on the first 20 chapters of Job. That’s when Job reacts to the news he lost his livestock, servants, and all …

Every Eastertime, people who pity Christians for believing in Jesus wind up at one of my YouTube videos about the crucifixion of Jesus. And they tear into me. I use a filter to reject comments from viewers critiquing my work with the hateful words no …

BIBLE PROPHETS WARNED ISRAEL that invaders would erase them from the world map if they didn’t shape up and stop the corruption and start treating people with respect and justice. The question is whether those prophecies apply today. In other …

I asked an artificial intelligence chatbot created by Trump supporters why people voted for him. It told me. But it’s what followed that shocked me. Interview with AI about USA ChatGPT sounds Woke at 2 a.m. AI says USA is no longer a …

OUR LITTLE LADY MAIZEY, our 6-year-old black lab, gets evaluated on Wednesday for her diagnosis of lymphoma. I’ve spent time thinking about what kind of news is coming next, and mourning over what Maizey is going to have to endure, starting on …

WE GOT THE NEWS the first Saturday after Christmas. Our dog Maizey, a 6-year-old black lab mix, tested positive for lymphoma over the Christmas holidays. Our first clue was swollen and hard lymph nodes in the neck. As I’ve said before, …