US & the Covid war
One year ago (11 Mar), WHO declared Covid-19 as a global pandemic. Schools and businesses here in the States began shutting down the week of…
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Fathers, Faithfulness & the Fourth of July
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Skillful Shepherds (@skillfulshepherds) on Jul 12, 2020 at 8:00pm PDT In the span of…
Church visits (Chicagoland)
I had the opportunity to visit 2 church services last Sunday. The first was a satellite extension of megachurch Willow Creek at South Lake. Worship,…
Well done, good & faithful servant
News trickled in around the stroke of midnight in Singapore (UTC+8) on Wednesday night (21 Feb). It took a while for it to sink in,…
Reflecting on the US presidential elections
Amazing. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayU5kw7Kf5U]
Moral blindness
A Christian missiologist, Ed Stetzer, wrote this on Facebook last Wednesday, “In the last 5 days, 700 refugees drowned off Greece, 9000 babies were aborted…
Basketball & community policing
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6gPp4Ra4_g] A police officer, Bobby White, in Gainesville, Florida, responds to a “noise disturbance” call complaining about a group of kids playing street basketball,…
U.S. and mass shootings
A compilation of news about mass shootings in the U.S. Mass shootings in America: The big picture in charts and graphs (CNN) Why the U.S….
Obergefell v. Hodges
On 26 June 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage, also known as…
Sweet Cakes by Melissa
In January 2013, a Christian couple, Aaron and Melissa Klein who run a bakery “Sweet Cakes by Melissa” were asked by a lesbian woman, Rachel…