By: Carol McClain       carol_mcclain For the Fourth of July, Nike apparel was going to roll out a new shoe featuring the Betsy Ross flag. Kaepernick, a well-known football star and social activist protested. The flag symbolised slavery and a despicable time of our history. Nike withdrew the design. On the outside, his protest looked good. Our …[ read more ]

Carol McClain  carol_mcclain On Feb. 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Two months later, authorities caught her robbing the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco with her captors. How did a young woman with no history of protests or rebellion, one who came from an affluent, conservative family suddenly become a bank robber?   A …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain        carol_mcclain My friend bought a vacation home on a beautiful lake. For years she’d marvel about her good fortune. Then time passed. It became a small, unremarkable house on a cul-de-sac of million dollar homes. She lost the wonder. This year, though, she sat on her dock. Fireworks exploded down the cove. The …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain       carol_mcclain What we believe is a major transgression is not necessarily God’s opinion. What sin is the worst? Before I got saved, a pastor told be because I was divorced, I could never marry again. It didn’t matter that I was unsaved and then redeemed. It didn’t matter that my ex cheated on …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain      carol_mcclain “Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not…created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of wildflower.” Harvey Broome, Naturalist. And …[ read more ]