by design | Oct 27, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Another election cycle and I ask myself will anything change? I keep hoping that Americans will finally wake up and “get it,” but I don’t allow myself high hopes because they’ve been dashed so many times before. Because of early voting, Americans...
by design | Oct 20, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I like to be a bit unpredictable. I want my readers to wonder what I’m going to say next. Will he write about politics or medicine? Will he launch into physics or discuss history? Maybe this week will be a sermonette or a treatise on some...
by design | Oct 13, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve never understood some people’s excitement with Halloween. Some see this pseudo-holiday as the beginning of the Holiday season. I see this as a marketing ploy of stores rather than the liturgical observance of departed saints on All Hallow’s...
by design | Oct 6, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “Tell them we gave our todays for their tomorrows.” You may be surprised to learn that my favorite big city is Washington D.C. This statement usually raises some eyebrows. None the less, our national Capital is an architecturally beautiful city,...
by design | Sep 29, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve learned to listen to my wife. Over the years a mutual respect of our different gifts has helped us to celebrate our thirty-ninth anniversary in September. Becky is more practical than me, and recently observed that “Americans don’t seem to...
by design | Sep 22, 2014 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson At first glance some of you may be puzzled by this title. Or perhaps you thought I misspelled the phrase “kawabonga” used by Chief Thunderthud on the Howdy Doody show. Maybe you thought I was using surfer lingo, “cowabunga,” or quoting Snoopy in...