by design | Sep 23, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes I feel like the crowd behind the Pied Piper of Hamelin. You recall the legend of the Piper whose job was to remove rats from a town in Germany. Then, when the town’s people refused to pay the Piper, he spirited away the children of the...
by design | Sep 16, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Like Rodney King, I wish we could all “just get along.” But, how is it possible to coexist with hate-driven insanity? Jesus himself refused to compromise with hypocritical Pharisees. Jesus’ language (tweets?) in the 23rd chapter of Matthew is...
by design | Sep 9, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is nothing as enchanting as the soft squeal of a delighted child or the gentle babbling of a baby. These are priceless to a grandfather’s ears and the principal reasons for our travel to Portland, Oregon to visit with our daughter, son-in-law...
by design | Sep 3, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I once wrote an essay about the modern scourge of AIDS and compared it to the ancient disease we now know as leprosy. Tremendous progress has been made with both diseases, and with modern medicine there is now the prospect of curing HIV...
by design | Aug 26, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I used to read the New York Times, the Washington Post and listen to the news on National Public Radio. Not anymore, though I still listen to classical music on the NPR affiliate, WUOT. Nonetheless, I am well aware of the major news media’s...
by design | Aug 19, 2019 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Not infrequently, readers ask me why I sometimes use words that might not be commonplace. I’m not trying to be pedantic (ostentatiously learned), but challenging! And sometimes the perfect word is just that – the perfect word which succinctly...
