Just when I thought the winds of change were blowing in the right direction, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has to up and die.
On Sunday, September 20, I will stand with fellow citizens at a “Rally for Racial and Economic Justice.”
Some of my best friends are evangelicals.
I’ve been reading Plato’s “The Republic.” I needed a diversion from the “ship of fools.”
I thought for sure the Republicans would throw in the towel and forfeit the race. I was wrong.
America is on fire. The towers of freedom and justice have been struck.
It’s a marvel of human ingenuity.
On the way to the beach last week we passed Kitty Hawk. And that got me thinking of Eve.
[On vacation this week. I hope you enjoy this re-run from Oct. 6, 2019]
As you read this I’m at the beach in Avon, North Carolina. (Sorry. But somebody had to go!)
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Randall Tremba was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. He took a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Wheaton College, Illinois (1969), [delete extra space]a master’s of divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California (1973)[comma] and a doctor of ministry at Princeton Seminary (1992). He was installed as minister of the Shepherdstown (WV) Presbyterian Church in July 1976. Forty-one years later he retired. In between[comma]* he married Paula, became a parent (Jonah, Nathanael, Amanda) and a grandfather as well as founding[comma] founded the Rumsey Radio Hour (1990), and co-founded the Shepherdstown Good News Paper with Ed Zahniser (May 1979). You can follow the author on his blog, thedevilsgift.com.









