Earlier in the week, when I was writing about my non-fiction book, Genesis and the Thoughtful Christian, I wrote about six potential challenges inherent in trying to bring faith and science together. This is the seventh: Challenge #7: Science is dispassionate about results (ideally, Read More …
Category: history
Happy Thanksgiving from Wisewirx!
Thanksgiving Trivia Question: Did the pilgrims come from England or Holland? (Answer at the end.) If heard different stories about the origins of Thanksgiving over the years. Some accounts emphasize the high mortality rate of the pilgrims. Over half of the 102 colonists had died, Read More …
Invasion: A Day in History
October 30, 2018 will mark the 80th anniversary of a momentous event. In the year 1938, terrifying creatures from the planet Mars fled their own dying world to invade earth. Their first cylinder crashed on a farm in Drover’s Mill, New Jersey. After shooting down Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: Southern Brew
I’m not the first writer or artist to be inspired by my region of the country. Anne Rice lived in New Orleans and set her vampire novels there. Charlaine Harris, whose Southern Vampire novels formed the basis for HBO’s True Blood series lived in Magnolia, Read More …
A Historical Note: 500 Years of Protestants
This isn’t part of my three-week theme, but I thought it was too historically significant not to comment on: Five hundred years ago today, in 1517, a young priest named Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, a document protesting the abuses of church leaders, to Read More …
Haunted Summer Inspirations: Japan Bombed Oregon?
In Haunted Summer, one of the characters sees a spectral World War II-era Japanese plane flying along the cost near the Washington-Oregon border. One of the accidental discoveries I made when I was doing research for the novel is that the Japanese really did launch Read More …