My Inner Author

The Obama Administration has a great new Education program for the United States. No Child Left Behind, has been universally praised and despised for years. Beyond that, and despite whatever good and bad components it possesses, it simply has a negative connotation focusing on the child being “left behind”, rather than moving forward (and it had that negative word “no” in the title). For this reason alone, a new program was necessary. However, this bold new educational program needed to emulate the goals and policies of all the other major Obama Administration's initiatives. It needed to include fairness for all, but most of all it needed to represent change. So, how can this be accomplished? First and foremost, a new grading policy will be implemented across the country, in every public and private school. This is the central component to the new plan. Henceforth, all students with a 100 (or higher) grade average in any class will be taxed 25% of their scores, and those points wil...

Many surveys taken over the past decade show a decline in church membership and also in the number of people who define themselves as Christian, or any other major religious faith. I have read many articles and theories about the cause of this decline: from the church crowd, from sociologists, from professors, research analysts, journalists, pundits and the like. It is certainly an interesting topic of discussion. One theory I read really struck a chord with me. The more I have pondered it, the more sense it seems to make. So, I am sharing the idea now: Politics and Causes have become the religion for some (perhaps too many) in the modern world. Think about this for a minute. If you were to take an “honest” poll (where people simply spoke the truth rather than thinking about what the pollsters want to hear or whatever paints themselves in the best light) of some of the hard-line supporters of some of these causes: Pro-Choice, Earth First, PETA, Greenpeace, etc.; you would find they are...

A momentary departure from my usual fare of social, religious or political commentary is due. This past week, the small amount of non-Super Bowl football news has been Tim Tebow's performance in the Senior Bowl as he gets ready to be drafted by an NFL team. Some people think he is the greatest college QB ever (please!, but he does probably belong in the discussion of the top 20). Some think he will be a first round draft pick, others think he will be lucky to be gone by the end of round 3. To the average Saturday afternoon college fan, this has to be somewhat mystifying. He ruled nearly every time he took the field. Well, I decided to read the breakdowns and went looking for video and pictures I could use to explain things. Personally, I like Tim (with the sole exception of his Gator past). He is an authentic Christian (at least to this point in his life) and he isn't afraid to speak his mind, his beliefs, and to take on the burdens of all the spotlight that comes with that lar...