Former homeless man holds job, lives on own, drives car, extends mercy
Serving clients at Community Kitchen in Chattanooga are Edward Hice, left, and Emmett Allgood Jr. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. — Ephesians 4:28 And whatever you do, do it heartily, […]
Grounds for suit: City’s gay ordinance outside legal authority in charter
Mayor Andy Berke holds a cute pup, but a poofter city ordinance he admires is a real mongrel. (Photo city Twitter feed) (An effort to oust city councilman Chris Anderson has failed by a lack of 421 signatures. Mr. Anderson is the inspiration of city government’s lugbutt (OK OK, LBGT) ordinance for domestic partner benefits. […]
For Chattanooga local economy to rise, rebuild waste places
Tulis boys, foreground, reload clips or fire downrange at a plinking session in Birchwood, Tenn. The weapons are a .30-cal. SKS and a .223-cal. Mini-14. An armed citizenry cannot be totally subjugated. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations […]
Dad, let’s rediscover the great gift of intellectual hunger
By Tammy Drennan In his excellent autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks about discovering the joy of reading for the first time. It wasn’t as a child, nor as a grade school or high school student. It wasn’t at the colleges he attended, not even Yale. Instead, after getting hooked on […]
From ‘religious organization’ to church; dissolving the corporate charter
(Bob Parsons in The Moneychanger) 3 brief letters to Nashville shed the artifice of the corporate church in an entanglement with the state; how to dissolve the corporation [Note: Nothing in this essay should be construed as legal advice. The material is based on my own reading of the statute and background reading of the […]
Lessons from Laish, a biblical city left defenseless by depraved ways
The Levite carries his slain concubine after she is sodomized to death in the lawless town Gibeah (Judges 19). Gibeah was a lawless domain of the sons of Benjamin. Laish (in chapter 18) is seized by the sons of Dan. (Image from Dore´s illustrated Bible book) By David Tulis I have been thinking about Laish, […]
Minority report in Chattanooga media; my work thus far
Lenders along Highway 153 reflect the end stages of long-term decapitalization of the American economy. I cover the scavenger economy on this website, Nooganomics.com, and pray for your support. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them […]
Key cultural indicator: Poverty in prayers of confession bodes ill for U.S.
Grief at sin prompts the woman at the Pharisee’s house to weep and wash the feet of Jesus while he is at table (Luke 7). [I first published this essay in November 2012. — DJT] By David Tulis The low estate of Christianity is evident in public prayers that see man as coequal with God, […]
Working around roadblocks; money by phone in Africa
These slum children in Nairobi, Kenya, are listening to gospel teaching. (Photo Englewood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., website) [Leave it to Africa to find a way around the government regulation that is strangling innovation in America. I’ve known Ken Griffith for nearly 20 years. He started a land development in Virginia for people looking […]
That’s all Chattanooga needs — more ‘overarching leadership’
A helicopter refurbished by a veterans group is hauled toward its park pole in Soddy-Daisy on Feb. 28, 2014. The private sector pulls the public; it’s not the other way around. (Photo David Tulis) [O]ur biggest obstacle to achieving a larger civic vision is the sad lack of over-arching governmental leadership, vision and collaboration among […]