by Col. Bill Spencer, USAF (Ret.) | Dec 22, 2020
(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) “I don’t really care about where I’ve come from or, after this life, where I’m going,” the driver emphasized. He’d said it before and so was a little miffed that he was having to say it again. The two...
by Col. Bill Spencer, USAF (Ret.) | Dec 21, 2020
(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) The undergrad wanted more clarification on a point that the Professor had made in class. He decided to go up to the prof’s office even without an appointment. The answer shouldn’t take long...
by Col. Bill Spencer, USAF (Ret.) | Dec 20, 2020
(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) That evening the fifth-grade Bible Study class took up the subject of faith . . . and hope. Fifth-graders. The teacher, Jim, drew a circle on the board, placed an “X” in the center, and then...
by Col. Bill Spencer, USAF (Ret.) | Dec 3, 2020
(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) Once the Urban elites had seized power in the inner cities, it had become unsafe for anyone to enter the occupied zones. There was a different law there and it was one that knew no boundaries. These...
by Col. Bill Spencer, USAF (Ret.) | Dec 1, 2020
(With inspiration from David McCasland’s Pinstripe Parables) The social divide between the rural and urban communities had grown so wide that no one could see their way clear to conceptualize a bridge between them, much less build it. And yet, no one wanted that...