The Famished Patriot

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1951-1969 My friend Derrel Emmerson, the founder, and now the retired pastor of Christian Assembly in Vienna, Virginia, introduced me to the idea of the “Memory of Eden.” His witty axiom refers to the residue of memory we all possess dating back to our earliest ancestors, Adam and Eve. […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1976   I came of age in the Buckeye State. I spent my childhood in Cincinnati, and my teen years in Cleveland. It was in those years that I first sensed the Echoes of Eden resonating deep within me. On the cusp of my twentieth birthday, over Labor Day […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1980-1983 In the summer of my seventeenth year—1969—I traveled throughout the Midwest as the youngest member of a Lutheran Youth Encounter summer mission team. Along our route, we spent several weeks ministering to youth in inner city Chicago. One evening, our hosts treated us to Chicago Style Pizza at […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1986-1987 In 1986 I met a man named Alan Snyder. Like me, Dr. Snyder possessed a love of American history and a passion for the Biblical principles which support our Constitution and our traditional American way of life. At the time, Dr. Snyder was a professor at George Mason […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1989-1995 On Memorial Day Weekend of 1989, I joined my wife, my daughters, and several gals  from our church’s ladies softball team for an evening practice. Covering left field that Friday evening, I backpedaled for a fly ball. I slipped, I fell, and my head hit the ground. The […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1995-2001 My friend John Jenkins and I collaborated on a novel titled Bloodlines and it was published by Vine Books in 1993. Our contract with the publisher included some marketing assistance. Numerous radio interviews were set up and John and I prepared a list of questions for the radio […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 1997-2007 I sprinted through the ’90’s. And it took me several years to catch my breath. The seed of patriotism dropped into my heart’s soil as a faint echo in my childhood and youth throughout the ’50’s and ’60’s. The patriotic seed germinated and broke through the soil on […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 2007 In September of 2007, the men of my church retreated from our hectic Northern Virginia world, and spent two days in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Shenandoah National Park. It was a fitting end to a ten year season of my life where I had personally pulled back […]

The Quest For Patriot Nourishment – 2007-Present Following the September 2007 church Men’s Retreat I wrote about earlier, I sat down and composed a strategy of sorts—an approach to advancing what I believe to be my personal prophetic mission. At the center of the mission is the promotion of the Judeo-Christian Worldview. What follows was […]