Progressivism

Progressive (ism)

Progressivism is not insurance.

It provides no coverage.

It faults the present

As passé.

Critical of the now

Progressivism promises radical change

But delivers nothing,

Relying on diversion and deception.

Progressivism seeks only power.

It throws out the present and

Continually ridicules the past.

Its promises are ephemeral.

Progressivism is never right.

It is forever left.

Neo-Marxist

Posing as post-modernist.

Progressivism is the disguised

Gemini of communism

Ready, willing, and able

To control and manipulate you.

Progressivism is neither liberating nor social;

It passes through stages

From liberalism to socialism

To the dictatorial.

Then it ceases being progressive.

Those who cannot see this

Are people truly

Not Woke.

No joke.

WENjr

12-03-2019

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No center to hold.

Neither left nor right,

But countless factions

Ready to fight.

Have you even noticed

America in disarray?

Tensions heighten

Day by day.

She murders her future

While in the womb.

She ignores her past

Granting elders an early tomb.

Affluence is a factor,

Yes, foreign foes, too.

Raw hatred to those who dare oppose

Is what we choose.

In politics

There used to be

A loyal opposition

To challenge or to agree.

It was a way

For ideas to enter

Into discussion.

It forged a center.

But a readiness

That kills

By anonymous assassins

Delivers gratuitous thrills.

Common ground is lost

To zeitgeist feeling,

Replacing our foundation

Sending us nationally reeling.

Founding mothers and fathers

Squirm in their graves

As their legacy

Become new slaves.

Freedom not enough.

Wealth bad.

Prosperity illusive.

Life sad

So, say the spoilers,

Those who were spared life’s trials.

They assert an expertise

With arrogant smiles,

Yet they have

No experience.

Their expertise

Is masked, and nefarious.

But what you don’t want to hear is

That America’s beginning

Was Christ-based,

Her foundational underpinning.

America’s start,

Like the Exodus of old,

Experimented with freedom.

That is the center to hold.

Resurgent Green Grocer

Resurgent Green Grocer

Havel’s green grocer

Is alive and well.

Unfortunately, he’s come closer,

Right here under the Liberty Bell.

The grocer is not the problem,

But the fear he projects:

Life hitting rock bottom,

All freedoms in check.

Progressive, Socialist elite,

Know better than you.

With innuendo, hate, and cheat,

Reality, they skew.

Not afar.

It’s here.

They are the Socialist tsar,

Your superior, not peer.

Commonwealth and Empire

Commonwealth and Empire

One a protector of its people, primarily

Codified by and large;

No exceptions arbitrarily,

Such its legal and humanitarian charge.

The other a misnomer,

If ever there was one;

Is in a democratic republic a carcinoma,

With an emperor to shun.

“Let the children come to me,

And do not hinder …

I will set them free

And you will not injure.”

Do not deny their presentation

In the Lord’s temple;

Their Holy representation?

Life and breath that’s so central.

Shame on the Commonwealth’s doctor,

Shame on the Empire’s leader.

You are the unborns’ stalkers.

You are life’s cheaters.

WENjr

2-3-2019

Left to Perception

Left to Perception

Perceptive are those

Not right,

Who see easily

What’s left is fright.

Why else

Their incendiary?

Its diminishing

Wave evidentiary.

They know

Better than others,

Their cause

Now smothers.

Not willing

To be the loyal

Opposition,

As a snake, they coil

And spew

Only venom.

Pressured,

Encased plenum.

Rationality

Lost to antipathy,

All or nothing

Their dissonant symphony.

What’s left

Is free speech

Lost to

Constitutional breach.

No compromise,

We are told.

Now, will

The center hold?

WENjr

October 29, 2018

Archdeacon Books New Releases 2018-2019

BOOK RELEASES FROM

Archdeacon Books

2018-2019

ANDERSON, Joel Edmund (1Q2019)

Christianity and the Transition of Worldviews in Western Culture

This book is an in-depth study of the transition of ideas or worldviews evident in western culture over the past 2,000 years. Arguments articulated come not only from ancient and current Christian sources, but from the non-religious philosophical greats.

CHAMBERS, Rick (3Q2018)

          Trigon’s View with Study Guide

This is an updated version of the young adult sci-fi thriller released months earlier. A Christian book for teens, this edition combines the novel with its study guide into one volume. The study guide helps young people understand Christian principles within the novel and identifies and explains Christian symbolism.

HOGAN, Merle (1Q2019)

I’m Possible

A personal struggle story, Hogan describes her life of physical, emotional, and spiritual set-backs and how those negative situations have been overcome.

LANCLOS, Steven, editor (4Q2018)

Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd Prayer Book

This is a temporary and an abridged version of the future Book of Common Prayer for the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to be released in 2019 or 2020. This small prayer book contains a special section for chaplains since Good Shepherd is the host chapel for the Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy, a diocese of the ACNA.

MORRIS, Frances “Bee” Newman (3Q2018)

Letters to Zipp

The author’s father was the great and well-known sports writer and editor of The Birmingham News. Zipp Newman was an active writer from 1919 to his passing in 1977. Not only was he a gifted writer, Newman used sports to raise funds for needy causes, particularly for Birmingham’s Crippled Children’s Clinic and Hospital. The book is about Zipp Newman and his many relationships not only with sports figures around the nation but with local business and civic leaders.

SCOTT, Dan (3Q2018)

The Miracle Worker of Mingo County

This is a novel centered around the time of the great flood of 1972 in West Virginia. It is a story of the local culture and the breaking out of one of its sons.

STANTON, James M. (3Q2018)

Women of Faith

The ABCs of Faith

The author of these two workbooks (or guided study programs) is the VII Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. A gifted teacher, Bishop Stanton identifies women in the Bible whose faithful witness richly served the Lord. In his 4^th edition of The ABCs of Faith, key points of faith are explained to the faithful who wish to recover their understanding, and to seekers who want to find a pathway toward faith.

WILLIAMS, Michael, editor-in-chief (4Q2018)

          The JAFC Journal – Vol. 1, No. 2.

The Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (SJAFC or JAFC) is the endorsing agency for ACNA chaplains in the United States Military. The JAFC is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. The JAFC Journal contains articles written by chaplains – lay and ordained – who work many ministries around the world and within the United States. Some chaplains are non-military serving in hospitals, hospices, and prisons. The articles are eye-opening. Michael Williams is editor-in-chief and a bishop-suffragan of the Jurisdiction.

Woody Norman is the owner and publisher of Archdeacon Books

You Tawkin' to Me?

You Tawkin' to Me?

A DeNironian Canticle

Hey Tony!

Yeah, I'm tawkin' to you

And America, too.

I didn't stutter

When I "f-bombed" Trump.

I speak gutter.