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Operation Epic Fury and the King of the South
Shortly after 8 a.m. local time on the Sabbath Feb. 28, a surprise joint attack by Israel and the United States – designated Operation Epic Fury – rained down multiple cruise missiles, High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) rockets, drones, and stand-off weapons across Iran, striking multiple targets. As noted in an earlier Seeking the … Read more
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The Thērion and you – “Some lines cannot be uncrossed”
The world barely had time to recover from what some called “quite the shock to the trans-Atlantic family” – the startling assertion of a U.S. claim on independent Greenland – before February 2026 delivered a new cascade of potential crises. Chief among them: a possible major military confrontation between the United States and Iran, and … Read more
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The Thērion and you – Greenland in the crosshairs and the end of NATO?
Shock, anger, and anxiety frothed again over the European continent in early January 2026, as President Trump – fresh off a regime-changing U.S. military excursion in Venezuela – appeared to reset his sights anew on the strategic mega-island of Greenland. Keeping in tone with recent forays into bombing Iranian nuclear facilities and Nigerian terrorist facilities … Read more
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Meeting the Challenge of a Nuclear Age – Set Your Mind
In the 1950s, an image captured a stark contradiction: a group of people staring — unprotected — at a rising mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion outside the city of Las Vegas. This is not a fabrication, fantasy or Photoshop. The photo timestamps a genuine moment when many – including U.S. government agencies – thought … Read more
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Civility – change the world
In just seven seconds, you can initiate change for just about anything. You can set in motion powerful influence that will touch hundreds, even thousands of people. At this societal hinge point in 2025, what’s a critical truth? Civility is contagious. But it’s a binary solution set. You can also demotivate. Annihilate productivity. Repel others. … Read more
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The Thērion and you – economic weaponization and “unstoppable China” courting premier power
A defiant, confident, and decidedly public display shocked diplomat and leader alike on September 3. “You don’t need a degree in international affairs to understand the message Xi Jinping sent Wednesday as he paraded tanks, hypersonic missiles and other weapons through Beijing, putatively to honor the end of World War II,” warned the Wall Street Journal. The … Read more
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The Way – what happened to “the faith once delivered”?
Uncertainty. Power struggles. Leadership controversy. Chaos. As the curtain on the first century began to draw to a close, the young assembly of disciples of the resurrected Messiah had endured a heady spectrum of success, setbacks, growth, and controversy. The tiny and close group of original disciples – all of whom had seen, heard, and … Read more
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The Thērion and you – the Day the Dollar Dies, Part IV
An unprecedented “shock to global trade… unlike anything seen in history” engulfed the world beginning in Week 12 of the second Trump administration. In early April 2025. alarm bells sounded as the U.S. stock market tanked, then surged, then tanked again on the news of harsh tariffs levied by President Donald Trump. Markets across the … Read more
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The Thērion and you – a Foundation for Fiscal Holocaust, Part III
In the first 100 days of the second Trump Presidency, the President whipsawed threats and implementation of massive tariffs on friend and foe alike, possibly inching toward a foundation for a fiscal holocaust. In a thinly veiled effort to force the re-shoring or relocation of manufacturing to “make America great again,” President Trump tapped the … Read more
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The Thērion and you, Brace for Impact? Part II
Diplomatic hubris descended into Oval Office cacophony on Feb. 28, 2025, as a stunned global audience looked on aghast, tensed up to brace for impact. “You don’t have the cards,” barked President Donald Trump to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrapping up a free-for-all pile-on from administration officials. Hopes of a deal for security guarantees and … Read more
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The coming world-ruling Thērion and you, Part I
In a world increasingly dominated by disinformation, a rising threat of unthinkable thermonuclear war, conflict piled upon conflict, and loss of key societal freedoms, is it even possible to think of thoughts and expectations for peace? As Americans withdraw from a stabilizing global benefactor into self-serving protectionism, anxieties and fears soar across the planet. In … Read more
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How would you answer?
The defense attorney unexpectedly looked me straight in the eye. “Juror Number Eight, are you a good judge of character?” How would you have answered? I was sitting in the jury box in a courtroom high up in the gleaming new Community Justice Campus in Indianapolis. It was not a place where I would have … Read more
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A spiritual “blue screen of death” – and recovery
When conflicting forces compromise a PC, the operating system freezes and generates a “blue screen of death.” A question presented in a spirit of humility – are we here nationally?
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Live Differently – Abide
What does “abide” have to do with living successfully in an anxiety-saturated, hope-sapped world? What’s the pathway – what should be our focus? Here’s a vital directive that can help us. It was given to us some 2,000 years ago on possibly the darkest night of the physical universe. Just hours before His gruesome death … Read more
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The Power of Perspective
It is not pleasant to consider, but it’s obvious today – the United States of America – and in fact, much of the world – is savagely divided. Superheated fissures fracture across numerous political viewpoints, personal conduct, and even whether or not anything exists that can be regarded as truth, especially when one adds the … Read more
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A New Beginning – Seeking the Way
“Do everything in love.” An unexpected directive at the conclusion of an intense ancient letter. When the apostle Paul wrote his first letter (or rather, the first letter that we know of) to the gentile congregation at Corinth, he covered the whole spectrum. He profoundly emphasized the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, to … Read more