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Monday, October 30, 2006

Voters Guide

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No, I am not going to tell you who or what to vote for. Nor am I going to suggest you affiliate with a specific political party. But I got t...

Monday, October 23, 2006

Pass the Ammunition

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The phrase, “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition,” has been around a long time. A few months ago I wrote about the “Quaker Guns” which ...

Monday, October 16, 2006

Election Year Malaise

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Every couple of years we Americans have the opportunity to decide who we want to serve as our elected representatives. Seems like we barely ...

Monday, October 09, 2006

Great Hymns Redux

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Since I wrote a previous article last month on the Great Hymns of the Faith, I thought I’d bring you up to date on the hymns I’ve covered si...

Monday, October 02, 2006

USO Show

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The year was 1987. I was the command chaplain for the USS White Plains, a supply ship home ported in Guam. As a supply ship, our mission was...

Monday, September 25, 2006

Stand Down!

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Well now, isn’t this a fine kettle of fish! What I’m referring to is the outrageous personal attacks by two heads of state against President...

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CHUCK ROOTS: Ripon, CA, United States; I am a husband and father of two daughters, Laura and Jenny, and three granddaughters, Alyssa Grace, Brooklyne Paige, and DeziRay, and two grandsons, Daniel and Colson. I'm a retired Evangelical pastor of the Free Methodist denomination, and a retired Navy Chaplain. As a former enlisted Marine I served in Vietnam. As a Navy Chaplain I served with the Marines in Kuwait, Iraq and Djibouti.

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