Confederate Monument: Betrayal, Trump Train, and Moving Forward
Cleveland Daily BannerFaith on View has been covering this story since the demonstrations started in June. Our long article archiving the story is now over 16,000 words and can be read here. Hope and Betrayal The presentations to the City Council and the stories in the news eventually led to a call for a task […]
To Those Who Knock
It was May of 2014. I was staying Memorial Day weekend at All Saints of America Orthodox Church in De Queen, AR. I woke up early Saturday morning to take a day trip. 30 miles in, I was traveling 60mph approaching Broken Bow, OK when my engine started to sputter and the tachometer bounced forebodingly […]
Johnny Fencerider, Demon Sperm, and the Real Threat to Freedom of Conscience in America
I had a pastor friend who at one time I considered to be a mentor. Sadly, he proved to be a disappointment both as a friend and as a mentor. I remember as a very young minister standing in the midst of a meeting of the Louisiana Baptist Convention where a crucial vote was to […]
A life etched into the mountains
“Can you tell me what kind it is?” A rock, thrust in my face by my keen-eyed daughter, looked like the kind of shale we’d been examining for the better part of an hour. The front side betrayed three trace fossils, while the obverse held something much clearer – a small but perfectly preserved trilobite. […]
The person my mother thinks I am
My mother is fond of telling me, “Scot you’re David!” The David she has in mind is the biblical one. And when she conflates me and King David, I’m positive she is thinking of the David who is described as being a “man after God’s own heart” and not David the murderer and womanizer. After […]
Faith on View ranked in Top 100 Theology Blogs
Faith on View just received the honor of being ranked in the top 100 Theology Blogs by Feedspot. Feedspot considers five categories when establishing rankings: Quality of Content Post consistency Age of blog Social Media engagement Traffic We debuted at #79. Hopefully, with time we will continue to climb up that list. Thank you, Feedspot!
The problem with racism today is people don’t know they are racist.
When many people think of racism, all they think about are things like slavery, lynchings, and Jim Crow. We think about things like in the sign above where people are intentionally equating Blacks and Mexicans with dogs. This sort of overt personal race-based bigotry is particularly repugnant. Most people today find this sort of overt […]
Visually Mapping COVID-19 across the U.S.
Everyone handles stressful times differently. My wife reads a lot of articles about what is happening with COVID-19 but she doesn’t really dive into the numbers. I, on the other hand, am a numbers person. I’ve been regularly watching the numbers for a while. I’ve used several different sites to track what is happening. Finally, […]
A Journey to Eastern Christianity
The following is a talk which my departed grandmother invited me to give for her Sunday School class at First United Methodist Shreveport and which, due to some confusion, was given in its entirety to the wrong class. Because of that, I have never shared it until now. The talk zones in on Fr. Seraphim […]
Lighting tips to make video recording yourself a little less painful
With the development of the COVID-19 virus and it’s speed of transmission, much of the world now finds themselves in quarantine. As a result, all manner of jobs are being shifted into the virtual sphere- if you can accomplish the task via video, you are now expected to make that adjustment, and if you […]