by Barry Creamer | Sep 27, 2023 | Devotionals
In a journal I only recently saw for the first time, my Granny, deceased many years now, writes of an older relative who would tell her juvenile self and siblings ghost stories at night. The stories, she says, were so terrifying that at bedtime she and the other young...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 20, 2023 | Devotionals
A long wooden footbridge crosses an alcove of White Rock Lake. Pedaling across it one day, something coming from behind breaks the surface of my peripheral vision, head height, about 10 yards to the right, over the water. About a half-mile back I saw for the first...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 13, 2023 | Devotionals
By the time average Joes and Janes observe the almost imperceptible object’s tiny, white silhouette adrift in an ocean of blue sky, the military has already tracked it from the Aleutian islands and other parts of Alaska, through Canada, and then to Montana. From...
by Barry Creamer | Sep 6, 2023 | Devotionals
Apparently Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to end the need for journalism and academic writing, replace research and philosophical inquiry, and make higher education and human knowledge superfluous—all in the next few months or years. (If you haven’t already,...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 30, 2023 | Devotionals
I am on the freeway about 15 years ago between teaching philosophy in Denton and arriving home in Arlington. A couple of lanes over and a few hundred yards behind me I notice two vehicles alternately racing in front of each other and stopping short, a 3-lane clearing...
