The Goodwin Blog
So, impeachment has come and gone. Bernie Sanders is still a democratic socialist and no one will let Michael Bloomberg forget “stop and frisk.” The political season is in full bloom and for the next ten months or so we’re going to be inundated with political punditry and opinions about what will happen if [...]
I live in a small municipality about twenty miles from downtown Houston that was once considered a suburban community. Today, that identifier of “suburb” no longer applies given the development of cities 30-40 miles from Houston. My little hamlet is land-locked and no longer the quaint community it once was. The city is still very [...]
I have a confession. I’m a worrier. But I don’t worry if the Dallas Cowboys or the Houston Texans will make the playoffs, I worry about my family’s health and well being. Right now I’m especially worried about my mother and one of my brothers-in-law. Both are dealing with issues that I pray daily about. [...]
Since we’re into the football season I thought it was time to interject my two cents. I’ve noticed several teams starting black quarterbacks these days. Some because of injury, but others have been under center since training camp. By my count, the first weekend of the National Football League season in September saw nine African [...]
Over the last few years our society has spent a great amount of energy reliving and analyzing the 1960s. Every event – from the deaths of the Kennedy brothers, MLK and Malcolm X, landing on the moon, war protests, and the hippie revolution – has been scrutinized through the microscope of history. The interesting thing [...]
Given the infinite nature of the Universe, four hundred years is merely a blink of the eye. But the human existence is not infinite. We understand that from the moment we take our first breath out of our mothers’ wombs, our journey begins towards that moment when we take our last breath. So, for us [...]
In June 1944, Allied forces began their assault not only on the beaches of Normandy, but on Nazism itself. Dubbed Operation Overlord, the amphibious exercise is legendary as the extraction of France from German control and the beginning of the end of Adolph Hitler’s plans for a thousand year reign of his Aryan master race. [...]
In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk in which he claimed: "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." That was 1903. American society is in the last year of the second decade of the twenty-first century, and I wonder if that famous quote still applies. In [...]
I wonder Is there anybody here who late at midnight sheds briny tears all because you didn't have no one to help you along the way and oh Lord? And if there's anyone Lord Let me tell you, let me tell you what I've done I've achieved to be a fence around me but take [...]
"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:). We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." 2 Cor 5: 6-8 As [...]