In 2018, the Roman Catholic “Oficina de Acogida al Peregrino” issued completion certificates to over 327 thousand pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Newer records (Continue Reading)
Happy Hobo
I’m just a poor wayfarin’ stranger …
Helping Ukraine
03/02/2022 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedWhen trying to help financially with a need, it’s a challenge to know whether a group is really helping or taking advantage of our generosity (Continue Reading)
Brave? Or stupid?
12/02/2021 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedWhat is the gutsiest thing you ever did in your life? Why did you do it?(Father’s Legacy, p. 115) I think most, if not all, (Continue Reading)
Freedom
09/21/2021 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedWe hear a lot about freedom these days. But what does freedom mean to me? What I’d like to have: Freedom from anger and hatred. (Continue Reading)
Persecution? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
08/24/2021 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedI’m always very skeptical about the accuracy of anything I read these days. But it’s telling that people on both sides have similar stories about (Continue Reading)
Operation Lock Step?
07/01/2021 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedIn May 2010, the Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network published a 54-page document called “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development.” It (Continue Reading)
Health mandates
11/02/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedWhy they don’t mean much to me: I answered, “The threat means little to me. If I were thoroughly exposed, the God I serve can (Continue Reading)
Who’s in charge?
09/26/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedSome thoughts from a meeting I recently attended: We in USA¹ should be grateful for and support our rights: to vote, to say what we (Continue Reading)
Assumptions
08/30/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments Closed“So they used gestures to ask the baby’s father what he wanted to name him.” (Luke 1:62) Zechariah had been unable to speak for at (Continue Reading)
Protected: Which is worse?
07/31/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Anthropology has come a long way, too.
04/01/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedJames Hunt, who coined the word “anthropology” and founded the first anthropological society, wrote in Anthropological review, Volume 4 (1866), p. 113 (and following): missionaries (Continue Reading)
Tom Tillapaugh, 1953-2020
03/20/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedThomas Allan Tillapaugh December 30, 1953 – March 16, 2020 Thomas “Tom” Allan Tillapaugh, born on December 30, 1953 in Britton, South Dakota, finished his (Continue Reading)
The real problem
03/10/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedMy browser was refusing to follow this link, so I’ll just take a chance on getting my hand slapped by copying: “I’m a doctor and (Continue Reading)
Sunday’s Sermon
03/02/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedWhile they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the Temple guards, and the Sadducees came to them. They were greatly disturbed (Continue Reading)
Finish the lesson…
02/26/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedMany of us are familiar with an old story: The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses brought in a woman who had (Continue Reading)
Marked
01/13/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedIt also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their (Continue Reading)
Where have all the soldiers gone?
01/09/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedIn response to a question from a young relative, here is a list of relatives with military service. Feel free to comment about others I (Continue Reading)
Texarkana—2 Jan 2016
01/02/2020 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedIHOP in Texarkana is dreaming of a white Christmas, or so the sound system says. I guess since the snow was late last year, they (Continue Reading)
Prayerful Posting?
11/11/2019 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedHere’s an idea: before posting a complaint, condemnation, or congratulation of a politician (or anyone else), pray for them. …, I urge you to offer (Continue Reading)
A Pessimist’s Take on Privacy
07/07/2019 W. Wesley Groleau Comments ClosedTim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTML, proposes a solution for the privacy concerns that many of us have about how his invention is being used:https://inrupt.com/blog/one-small-step-for-the-web Quoting: (Continue Reading)