Thoughts on writing, religious liberties, and more

Always love the opportunity to be with the grandkids!   Beautiful thirteen year old granddaughter cheerleading!     Son's family loves deer meat, so thirteen year old grandson got this 8 point with a bow! Open up the freezer!

Our kids, their schools, parents’ role in education and how to respond are all in the news today. That fight is not new, but the intensity and the attacks on parents trying to protect their kids seems to have greatly intensified. This week I learned about a young man...

Over these last few days we have all been horrified at the images and news coming out of Afghanistan. The abuse, hopelessness, chaos, stories of human tragedy, and religious persecution have been heartbreaking! We pray for protection, peace of God and the ability to...

Thanks to our kids for our grandkids! They really are grand. As each grandchild turns 12, my wife and I take them on a trip by themselves - to any place in the continental U. S. where they want to go! It gives us an opportunity to spend one-on-one time with each one...

By: Judge Roy Sparkman, (Retired), Author of A Pastor’s Pit* “Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they’re born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.” — Ray...

Benjamin Franklin: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”  When I was taking flying lessons to get my private pilot’s license, my instructor pilot made me do a lot of things I hoped I never had to do: land the plane with the engine shut off; bring the...

Two decisions by the US Supreme Court in the last week of the Court's 2020-2021 term resulted in confusion concerning the status of religious liberty. In Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the Court ruled 9-0 that the City of Philadelphia could not bar Catholic Social...

In A Pastor's Pit Pastor Preston Curtis says that the theological issue of what will happen to us when we die is the "ultimate question about life." This week I have attended the funeral of 2 friends and that ultimate question, and the hope of those who know Jesus as...

As the attacks on religious liberty began, those hostile to religious liberties would ask the US Supreme Court to "make them stop" - having prayer in schools, posting 12 commandments in county courthouses, etc. Now, those hostile to religious liberty seem to be...

A Pastor's Pit was recognized as a 2021 Finalist for Mystery/Suspense by Maxy Awards!

A PASTOR'S PIT BACKGROUND One of the motivating factors for my book A Pastor’s Pit was the progressive nature of the attack on religious liberty. Additionally, the courts play, and have played, the critical role of determining whether the attack on a particular...

For background about the Hostility to Religion in America see Kelly Shackelford’s book: https://firstliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Undeniable-2017.pdf Kelly cites that in 2011 there were 600 attacks on religious liberty and in 2016 there were 1400 attacks on...