Nolesrock's Blog

I started a series on my YouTube channel documenting my mental health journey the last two and one half months. I titled it Stopping The Mad...

EDITOR’S NOTE: It is NOT my intent to air Lynn’s dirty laundry. I only felt obliged to begin writing it last weekend when she began lying ab...

Not EVERYTHING in the Bible is spelled out as consistently and clearly as say God’s jealousy, the rights of slaves, the property that is wom...

I am quite fascinated by the scholarly study of theology and religion, namely as it pertains to the roots of Christianity and Judaism. Durin...

Why are we here? Why does anything exist? How did matter win the war with antimatter? The Qualitative Research Group at Northwestern Univers...

DISCLAIMER: I have succumbed to an existential crisis in my fifties much like Leo Tolstoy, but unlike him this did NOT lead me back to god. ...

I blogged at Thanksgiving last year about becoming an orphan in my 50’s. Nothing brings us the nostalgia of home quite like the holidays. A...

In an article written by David L. Holmes for Encyclopaedia Britannica (see The Founding Fathers, Deism, and Christianity ) he starts, “  For...

I touched on this a few years ago on this blog. Thanksgiving is a bogus holiday. Many of us learned as adults that the feltboard version we...

  This kickass rock band from the UK got my attention in junior high when I first heard the track, “Love Ain’t No Stranger,” on the radio. I...

MANIFEST DESTINY The racist ideology that white men have a God-ordained right to power and control over people and land. It was the ideology...

  I knew we had a supremely racist country stained with a bigoted past whose foundation was laid on the backs of slaves . Even still, the pr...

 My videos are raw and unedited. You’ll find the same topics discussed here—life, politics, sports and spirituality—on my YouTube channel . ...

This guy speaks truth. What do we really “own?” We are temporary, finite creatures on this planet. We have things we USE. He calls it a basi...

I have been talking about humility a lot lately. I think that it has fallen on deaf ears, but it's something I've studied, before as...

I have situational depression. It doesn’t make me suicidal. It just takes me to a bad headspace and holds me captive for a time. It doesn’t ...

This YouTuber really resonates with me, this video in particular. I've written here many times about Praise . I even sat down and for se...

Dan Barker said, “I was living a delusion.” He made this declaration on the Oprah Winfrey show as one of her guests back in 1984. He'd b...