The Famished Patriot

So, what is going on? And why do I feel a need to post these blogs? I will answer the second question first. Good things are happening, although to some it might not seem so. I am reminded of the Scripture passage from I Chronicles 12:32: “Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, […]

Seven days before our most recent presidential election, on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 to be precise, I pondered again the choice before me. My decision had already been made, sometime in September. Yes, I would pull the lever for Donald J. Trump. Was he unorthodox? Yes. Unruly and uncouth at times? Yes. Did I feel […]

In my previous post I said that I intend to create a series of blogs to “explain to you …what has been transpiring and why we should be very hopeful about our nation’s future …” Those of you who know me well know that I love my God, I love my country, and I love […]

The Famished Patriot has been relatively silent for a good while. With this blog I am launching a new series of posts that will commence to lay out the new dawn that has begun to break across the American landscape. If you have not been tuned into current events, if you gave up tracking with […]

Well I am eight podcasts into my NightWatch venture. Over the last few years, a handful of friends periodically urged me to begin publishing the 76 episodes I had in the can. I finally succumbed, surrendering up my fear that once I started I would not be able to keep up the pace of production […]

In the early spring days of 1972, I began to wrestle with God regarding the ownership of my life. I was twenty years old at the time and what I am about to tell you happened forty-five years ago. Four years prior to this 1972 wrestling match with God, in the spring of 1968 as […]

Senator Elizabeth Warren had to “sit down” last night in the middle of her speech about Attorney General candidate Jeff Sessions. She broke rule XIX of Senate protocol which forbids any U.S. Senator from making disparaging remarks about a fellow Senator. I write not to examine Warren’s words, the Republican response, or even the current […]

On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced his plan for a “War on Poverty.” It had been less than two months after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I was in the 7th grade. I remember the “War on Poverty,” the grand plan of the newly sworn-in leader of a […]

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9 King James 2000 Bible Generally speaking, when Donald Trump opens his mouth to talk about people who have spoken ill of him or people who oppose him, and I am in earshot, I feel slimed. Whenever Hillary Clinton opens […]

In November of 1972, I met the woman who, nine months later, would become my wife. Not long after our first encounter I was introduced to her brother. His name was Richard Aubrey Pond (1946-2016), although everyone knew him as Pepper. It did not take long at all for me to realize that I really, […]