The Atheist Christmas Tree Farmer
The exceptionalism of Jesus Christ was his livelihood, and yet he could not bring himself to believe it. The Reads' little red Honda scooted down the narrow driveway along the rail fence of the Christmas tree farm. It was December of 1993; Amanda was a little girl of...
Rebecca Laurel Read
Meet the ninth child and sixth daughter of the Read family... I love my littlest sister! Rebecca Laurel ("oath of victory") was born on December 8, 2009 at 12:42 p.m. She was 8 lbs., 1 oz. and 19 in. long (shortest and heaviest baby in our...
Winning America’s Heart Back
How often have you looked at someone who passionately disagrees with everything you stand for and thought, “just look at the facts! You can’t argue with facts, if these people would just look at the truth they would have to change their minds!”? I’m discovering that...
Veterans Day and Family Forces
Nine years ago today, I walked down to the newspaper stand on the Redstone Arsenal military post to fetch a copy of The Huntsville Times that included an article featuring our family. I still remember the days preceding it when the news reporter and photographer...
Thomas Jefferson Uncensored
I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would think about college students having to read his rough-draft of the Declaration of Independence. First drafts are rather embarrassing, you know. Since I am tired of "Fact Checking Muslim Demographics" being my front-page post and...
Fact Checking Muslim Demographics
“I’m sure we’ve all heard some variation of the fact before: the average Muslim family has 8.1 children, while the American birth rate barely reaches the bare minimum for a culture to survive beyond 25 years – 2.11 children – and that is counting the influx of Latino...
Origin of the Unoriginal: Episode I
Are you prepared for the drama…the romance…the comedy…of the original science fiction story? Ironically, it happens to be a true story. Sit right back and you’ll hear how the unbelievable hypothesis became the darling tale of a once scientific Western Civilization....
Luke Historians Introduction
Here is my first video introduction to the Luke Historians project. I would like to do more in depth videos some day, but decided to keep this one brief and to the point. I wasn't reading off of notes or a teleprompter...and the quality of the film after publishing...
How Then Should We Dress?
“Why do you always wear dresses? Don’t you wear pants, ever?” queried my grandmother, affectionately called “LaLa” by all of us grandchildren. My mother’s stepmother always liked nicely styled things, from hair cuts to earrings, so questioning my clothes was something...
Aspirations
For years I've stuck with the tagline, "You may simply call me an aspiring writer...", but I know there must come a time when I am no longer an aspiring writer, but a working writer. I've authored a screenplay (which I hope to revise again), an e-book (which, along...
Luke Historians & Not Just An Opinion
I would like to take a moment to share with you some website projects I am preparing to launch. By the way, my blog is currently in the process of being moved to a different hosting server, so there's a chance it could be down for a little while until the transfer is...
Keeping The Family Flock: A Primer On Raising Chickens
My e-book, Keeping The Family Flock: A Primer On Raising Chickens is now available at the Fair Hills Farm Bookstore! You will also see the "Buy Now" button on my sidebar. "This book was written with the goal of providing its readers with an introduction to the...
