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Thanksgiving in new light2 comments

mikegothard wrote 2 days ago: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I’m not sure who first coined the phrase but I’ll bet it follow … more →

Tags: Dominican Republic, Holidays, Mike Gothard, Thanksgiving, Abroad, gratitude, Passport, Travel, water

Newspaper Column

The Parson wrote 1 week ago: The Parson’s Perspective is a new weekly column in the Flemingsburg Gazette. You can read it h … more →

Tags: Flemingsburg Gazette, Newspaper column, Parson's Perspective

Experience = Education?

mikegothard wrote 1 week ago: George Will said, “There is no education in the second kick from a mule.” We often assum … more →

Tags: Learning, Failure, experience?, Education, Horse

Our happiness obsession

mikegothard wrote 2 weeks ago: Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is in … more →

Tags: God, following Christ, Christ, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Bible, C. S. Lewis, Contentment, John Updike

Flying the Friendly Skies

mikegothard wrote 2 weeks ago: Do you like to fly? Me neither. Well, I sort of like it, but not really. I mean, I do, but I don’t. … more →

Tags: BWIA, Mike Gothard, Pastor, fountain pen, flying, Author, friendly skies, Las Americas Airport, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic

Forgiveness is foolishness

mikegothard wrote 2 weeks ago: Forgiving someone who has hurt you or someone who has let you down, forgiving someone who has taken … more →

Tags: following Christ, Forgiveness, Jesus, peter, Sigmund Freud

The prickly problem of conflict of interest in cable news

edwardwasserman wrote 2 weeks ago: Published: November 9, 2009 I watch Howard Kurtz’s “Reliable Sources” media-review show most Sunday … more →

Tags: CNN, howard-kurtz, conflict of interest, Cable News, Reliable Sources

Jack, Jesus & the DR

mikegothard wrote 3 weeks ago: As I’m writing this column I am less than 48 hours from leaving the country for the first time in 45 … more →

Tags: New Community Church, God, Mike Gothard, Dominican Republic, Jesus, blackberry, eMail, 24, jack bauer

Ignorance is Bliss

illusorymind wrote 3 weeks ago: [全文] 無知是福 文字力量 林沛理 如果無知真的是福,世上「身在福中不知福」的人實在何其多也!「Ignorance is bliss」這句成語儘管膾炙人口,但充其量只配稱為「半真半假的陳述」(hal … more →

Tags: Economics, Materialism, HKEJ

Candy's Christmas

mikegothard wrote 1 month ago: All Hallow’s Eve. Trick-or-treat. All Saint’s Eve. Halloween Known by any number of names, I’ve come … more →

Tags: New Community Church, Mike Gothard, Holidays, Food, Halloween, candy, all hallow's eve, all saint's eve, Candy's Christmas

The anti-list

mikegothard wrote 1 month ago: The world can be conveniently divided into two groups of people – those that make lists and those th … more →

Tags: God, Mike Gothard, David Letterman, King David, Lists, pSALM 103, santa, Sin, Smells

Half full or half empty?1 comment

mikegothard wrote 1 month ago: You don’t have to know me very long before you’ll hear me say, “I’ve got some good news and some bad … more →

Tags: Life is hard, pessimist, Optimist, Baseball, Good News / Bad News, glass half full, glass half empty, optimistism, Pessimism

Christian Freedoms At Risk

Allyn wrote 1 month ago: “What do liberal proposals in Congress and state legislatures on marriage, health care, welfar … more →

Tags: Health Policy, rick santorum, Social Policy

Listen to your wife

illusorymind wrote 2 months ago: 信報9月18日 [全文] 怕老婆 麗都美識 陳頌紅 網上有一個關於「怕老婆」的笑話,是這樣的:有一個非常懼內的公司主管,很想知道天下間跟他同樣怕老婆的是否大有人在,很想證明自己不是怕老婆的少數。於是, … more →

Oxymoron 智慧之言

illusorymind wrote 3 months ago: 信報 2009年5月25日短信長寫 程逸 法國思想家Blaise Pascal是以下一句「逆喻」(oxymoron)之創作人:「我寫這封信比較長,因為我欠缺時間將它改短。」寫精簡文章或信件要費心思及更 … more →

Tags: Wisdom, Proverb, oxymoron

Regret

mikegothard wrote 6 months ago: “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not … more →

Tags: regret, Alisha Fien, Sydney Harris

Come hungry, leave happy6 comments

mikegothard wrote 9 months ago:                 On January 25 I wrote my 400th column for the Daily Advance and asked you to suggest … more →

Tags: New Community Church, Blog, God, Mike Gothard, church, Daily Advance, IHOP, come hungry leave happy, breakfast

H&R Blog1 comment

stevenhartwriter wrote 9 months ago: Hello, I’m H&R Blog with another of my 77 reasons why freelance writers need to be bloggin … more →

Tags: the writing life, HR blog, landfills, blogs

Times Leader

dogattack wrote 9 months ago: A leader article in The Times tomorrow highlights the black market in illegal attack dogs. Read it h … more →

Tags: Breeding, Articles


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