On Just About Everything
This week we will concentrate on two major costs in the family budget in the US and compare how much Sweden pays for the same thing. Medical Care In the USThe average cost per family for a year of health … Continue reading InDepth – Sweden – Post #3: Medical Care, Transportation
I get many of my ideas for posts here on RJsCorner and RedLetterLiving from my friends at ProgressiveChristianity.org This is one of those posts. I don’t know if the book The Power Of Positive Thinking is still popular, I kinda … Continue reading When Positive Thinking Can Be Negative
For this Revisit Wednesday I bring you a post from June 2012 about a topic that I have always had trouble with and that is that women are supposed to know their place. “Knowing your place” has throughout history been … Continue reading Women Be Quiet!!!
I’ve really really tried, but I have just run out of patience for reading a 200+ page books, or maybe it is time I have run out of.🧐 I will admit that I have never been a novel reader. Almost … Continue reading I’ve Really Tried… But I Just Have No Patience For…
I know from personal experiences that saying you doubt something in your church can get you in some pretty serious trouble. I will make a bold statement for you. I am sure you have doubts, probably even serious doubts, about … Continue reading Doubts are seldom allowed In The Church…
A person who drives ten miles to buy a lottery ticket is three times more likely to die in a car accident than winning the lottery. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know . No … Continue reading Three Times More Likely…
When I came across this building, I couldn’t believe my eyes. It is actually a mural painted on the side of a building in Old Town Quebec. And it was not the only one. The green fence is real, everything … Continue reading Creativity – Canadian Style
This post is mainly about how you view your world. I will use myself and my wife as examples of two different approaches. I embrace change whenever I find it. In fact, I get down right bored when change doesn’t … Continue reading Nerve Racking vs Exciting – A Matter of View
For this Revisit Wednesday I want to go to a post I wrote here over 12 years ago. It was the first time I seriously looked at the idea of Jubilee, but it would not be the last. I know … Continue reading Jubilee – Revisited
When I graduated from college in 1970, it was the first time I could really watch television. We got our first TV in the late 1950s but at that time there was very little on it for an almost-teenager. There … Continue reading Life Stories – I ❤️ MTM
I seem to lay almost all our present day problems on the MAGA cult and particularly those who are evangelicals among them. I realize that is just too easy to do. It is painting with too broad a brush. Saying … Continue reading Lazy Minds or Stifled Minds?
Of course, everything I say here at RedLetterLiving is my opinion, but sometimes it seems particularly necessary to make that declaration. Since I am going to compare some religious establishments on the post, this is one of those times As … Continue reading The Church Needs Shame…
The human body contains trillions of microorganisms i.e bacteria outnumbering human cells by ten to one. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know – The Knowledge Encyclopedia Kinda scary to think that we have more … Continue reading Trillions Of Microorganisms
This post originated on my blog at RedLetterLiving, but I think it will get the broader attention here that it deserves. Anyone who has read many of my words over at RedLetterLiving knows that I don’t have a very positive … Continue reading Tree of the knowledge
With this post, I want to point you to one of my life stories at one of my other blogs. You might think it is strange, but a dormitory cafeteria gets much credit for who I am today. Click on … Continue reading What Made Me A Man
A dormitory cafeteria was a prime reason I became a “man”. I know in my day and very likely today, that is not the usual statement to describe a dormitory cafeteria. It is usually described as “blah”, “bland”, “despicable”, or … Continue reading Life Stories – The Dormitory Cafeteria
I originally wrote this post for my daily blog over at RJsCorner but thought it is also very applicable here as well. Anyone who has read many of my words here know that I don’t have a very positive attitude … Continue reading The Tree Of Knowledge
The human brain uses 20% of the body’s energy even though it’s only 2% of the body’s total weight. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know I suspect that some of us use a lot … Continue reading Hot Heads
I very much try to keep all my posts here at RJsCorner to 500 words or less. I know your time is valuable, so I don’t want to take up too much of it. But, I have lots of topics … Continue reading InDepth Friday – Introduction
Going forward Thursdays here at RJsCorner will be used to direct you to my favorite post of the week at my other three blogs. Check them out if you have a couple of minutes. Just click on the spotlight graphics … Continue reading Spotlight Thursday
November 12, 2009 I found an interesting book a while back by Phyllis Tickle entitled “The Words of Jesus”. Phyllis Tickle is the founding editor at Publishers Weekly and is author of more than two dozen book about Christianity. In … Continue reading The Words of Jesus
Jeff Bezos was the master of entrepreneurship of the first two decades of this new century. He managed to put together a logistics system that was totally unheard of before him. To move from being a small online book store … Continue reading The Most Important Life Lesson To Pass On
This is another of my abstract realism photos that I’m kinda proud of. It looks like an abstract, but it is totally real. It was taken in 2000 during our last visit to Central Park before our relocation back to … Continue reading Central Park – NYC
I know that there are many out there that still believe that “government is the problem”, but I will again try to convince you that without our government many of the things that we deem essential today would like not … Continue reading Government Is A Premier Entrepreneur
Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan made the comment “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” I didn’t agree with that then but by adding two words I agree with it now. My slightly revised quote … Continue reading Government Wasn’t The Problem
We need to get over the idea that those who pray the hardest get special favors from God and if he doesn’t answer our prayer requests then we are simply not praying enough. In my mind that is total fabrication … Continue reading Those Who Pray The Hardest Get Special Favors
Thomas Edison taught his second wife, Mina Miller, Morse code so that they could communicate in secret by tapping each other’s hands when their families were around. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You Need To Know – … Continue reading Edison – The Epitome Of Pragmatism
The Significance Of Universal Salvation…. A Wrap-Up This the the final revisit of the 2013 series on “If Grace Is True” Here we are at the end of my study into universal salvation as presented by Philip Gulley in his … Continue reading Revisit – The Significance Of Universal Salvation…. A Wrap-Up
Sometimes reality is in itself abstract. An example of that is above. It was taken at a Des Moines museum a few years ago. How creative. Continue reading Sometimes Reality IS Abstract
Divine Intervention means different things to different people and religious organizations. For many in the religious community it means that we must pray to God not to get cancer or even be sick, and if we do get sick, we … Continue reading Divine Intervention
In 1770, the British Parliament passed a law condemning lipstick stating that any woman found guilty of seducing a man into matrimony by a cosmetic means would be tried for witchcraft. Matthews, Scott. 1144 Random, Interesting & Fun Facts You … Continue reading Lipstick and Witchcraft
Throughout my travels across America I am constantly on the lookout for creative things. Louisville seems to have them in spades. Continue reading Creative Street Lights
I, like Greta Thunberg, consider many of my Aspie traits to be my “superpowers” but some of them do need to be controlled sometimes in order to get things done. I love the fact that I can sit down and … Continue reading Reigning In My Aspie Traits… Sometimes
2020 was one hell of a year. Maybe the most stressful in my life. It felt more like an Apocalypse from a movie than real life. With the pandemic and the idiot in the Oval Office it seemed too much … Continue reading The 2020 Apocalypse
This is the second of three revisits to my initial posts on a book that changed my spiritual view of the world. I do these revisits so that you might better understand where I am going now by showing you … Continue reading If Grace Is True – Revisit #2
We are often told that we are only 5% of the world’s population. Whenever someone wants to emphasize our failures they use that number. We are 5% of the World’s population: but we have 20% of the COVID deaths but … Continue reading 95% Of The World’s Population….
January 17, 2021 There is so much of the Old Testament that still drives many versions of Christianity, especially among White Evangelicals. They seem to be fixated on the wrath of God rather than his love. The vast majority of … Continue reading It’s Time For DIVORCE… Or at least another separation
Lobster wasn’t always such a delicacy. In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered cruel and unusual punishment. Lobsters were referred to as the “cockroaches of the sea”. Backhause, Tyler; Backhause, Tyler. 1,000 Random Facts Everyone Should Know If they aren’t … Continue reading Feed Them To The Prisoners
I have got to put this picture back on the revised-edition of RJsView as it is one of my favorite memories from my visits to our northern neighbors. This old guy has likely spent a very long life in a … Continue reading My Acadian Friend
I recently updated my “10 Pillars of Life” to include: “Everyone should have the opportunity to live up to their full potential”. That is what this post is all about. When I say everyone, I mean everyone, regardless of their … Continue reading Universal Education
I thought I could last it out! I did last 3 years 11 months and 3 weeks. That is something to be very proud about that I guess. But I just don’t think that my sanity can survive another week … Continue reading For The Sake Of My Sanity
I realize that the vast majority of viewers here at RedLetterLiving read the daily post but seldom go into the archives. In order to see where I am going with the blog you need to see where I have come … Continue reading If Grace Is True – Revisit #1
I am a writer. I don’t know why I am obsessed with that craft, but I have to put my thoughts into words and get them out there. It’s not that I am seeking fame or fortune. I think I … Continue reading Being A Writer
My college years were probably the most important years of my life. They were a time when I quit being a skinny kid from a very small rural conservative town. They showed me that I had responsibilities as an adult … Continue reading Life Stories – Remembering Don
One of the things I have probably struggled with the most is the difference between the Old Testament God and the God as described by Jesus. It just seems to me that The OT God is pretty much an egotist, … Continue reading Doing God’s Will
