Category Archives: Culture

Getting It Right (Focus on Grace, January 2013)

Posted on May 25, 2014 by DHawthorne

Picture, if you will, a man. He is young, still somewhat idealistic, passionate and energetic. His friends, if asked to describe him with one word, would say things like, “faithful,” “devout,” and “intense,” and they would mean those things in … Continue reading →

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Playing Church

Posted on May 11, 2014 by DHawthorne

When I was a teenager, I attended a church that seemed, to my youthful perceptions, to have a core group of people that never changed. Members outside this group came and went, but this core group always seemed to stay … Continue reading →

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The Death of Democracy

Posted on August 20, 2013 by DHawthorne

A remarkable thing has happened … for the first time in over 35 years, former president Jimmy Carter has said something I agree with. In a speech at the meeting of “The Atlantic Bridge” in Atlanta, Georgia, he said, “America … Continue reading →

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Shon’ai …

Posted on July 14, 2013 by DHawthorne

In 1978, DAW published a science-fiction trilogy by CJ Cherryh titled “The Faded Sun,” a tale of an alien race who hired themselves out as mercenaries to other races. Left to themselves, they generally won the battles they fought, and … Continue reading →

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Harry Potter and the Religious Overreaction

Posted on May 24, 2008 by DHawthorne

I’ve been turning this particular issue over and over in my head for quite a while. You see, I’m something of a fan of the Harry Potter books; not an enormous, rabid fan, but I confess I enjoy the stories … Continue reading →

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What is the Cure?

Posted on September 18, 2006 by DHawthorne

Medecins Sans Frontières – Human Ball is a well made, and haunting video that attempts to illustrate the severity of the AIDS crisis in Africa. The issue HIV has been shelved to a back room of public consciousness in the … Continue reading →

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On the “Addictiveness” of Computer Gaming

Posted on July 3, 2006 by DHawthorne

I just “stumbled” upon this article and felt like I had to make a comment about it: Stop Calling Games Addictive. In summary, the author (Ernest Admas) makes a case for how the computer gaming industry is it’s own worse … Continue reading →

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If Christians Acted like This…

Posted on February 3, 2006 by DHawthorne

If Christians reacted to every slight and every bit of humor at their expense the way these Muslims have, they would have killed off the rest of the world by now. I thought I had a lot more to say … Continue reading →

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What Exactly Are They Selling?

Posted on January 15, 2006 by DHawthorne

My wife gets a lot of catalogs. You know the drill, you buy one thing on line, you get on the mailing list, and they send (more likely, sell) that mailing list to dozens of other resalers, who in turn … Continue reading →

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Perpetuating the Lie

Posted on December 24, 2005 by DHawthorne

Each Christmas season, I am boggled by the great lengths people go to to “prove” the existence of Santa Claus. Everyone over the age of 8 knows he isn’t real. The closest you can honestly come to saying he actually … Continue reading →

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