The Daily Ground Hog

The Police Blotter column from the Flathead County Beacon in Kalispell, Montana is always entertaining. My favorite 'report' is in ...

Yesterday in adult Sunday school we continued our discussion of the book, "Messy Grace", by Caleb Kaltenbach. We were in chapter 6...

It's always nice to have family support when life is in flux. I would like to thank my aunt and uncle for their wise words and kind supp...

I'm supposed to have coffee with my Dad's brother this morning. I hope he's able to get here. We need to talk about Dad. Uncle D...

I sometimes have to apologize for shooting off my mouth in places where it actually gets heard. It's a good thing that I am not a diplom...

When you think about all the occupations available to someone in this world, being a shepherd probably does not top anyone's list. Even ...

I keep thinking about the sermon on Sunday. It's kind of lodged in my brain like a sliver of glass, piercing the meninges and irritating...

On April 18th, 1936, Dennis Lynn Brady was born to Lloyd and Pauline Brady. He would eventually become my father.  Today he is 80 years old....

Back in the Day when I tried it, they were calling it conversion therapy and there were several varieties of it. The 'science' was i...

Here at the Daily Ground Hog, we get the occasional letter to the editor and these letters are taken as serious and insightful attempts to c...

As we all grow older, our physical appearance changes. Some of us become "distinguished". I love that one. I recently had an encou...

Since 1980, when the government put down recommendations for what we should and should not eat, Americans that adopted these guidelines have...

An elder in my church talked about lying during his communion meditation on Sunday. It got me to thinking about the whole issue of lying and...

We Christians are a weird people. Seriously. I know we are supposed to be peculiar, that we are to be the light and salt of the world, to be...

It does not seem like those four things should go together, but I believe that at least sometimes they do. The spiritual nature of humanity ...

In a text conversation yesterday with my old fishing buddy, Eric, I said that this blog was a monument to my own narcissism. He thought that...

This is a lifetime process for some of us. I know there are those of you that have always worn your lives on your sleeves. You've never ...

In the summer of 1975, I went to the Cincinnati Bible College. I went there right out of high school. I took some summer school courses to s...

Just a passing observation or three here. When people change, they take others on the ride with them...even if they don't want to go. ...

I hope not. I really do not like the words "religious" and "religion". They reek of superstition and the works of men de...