By Sean Dempsey, 7/15/23 ‘The lives of the benevolent are perhaps the most besieged.’ The Archbishop of Cheshire whispered madly into the darkness as he made his way between foul-smelling passageways and across dirty streets. Hot tears fell from his eyes and he beat his fists against stone walls as he trudged — almost stumbled […]
Left alone, in my home, I’m out of harm’s way.Dangers of this world won’t get me today.Left alone, in my home, I’ll surely survive.There’s not a thing I won’t do to keep me alive. The world’s now so dark—with despair and disease!I’m safe here. Protected. I feel more at ease.I’ve tv here, and Zoom calls; FaceTime […]
by Sean Dempsey | March 23, 2026 Abstract: If Israel is God’s chosen people (and I devoutly believe they are), then why does their story so often read like a tragedy of leaders doing what is sublimely wicked? Stated another way, why does the biblical record return again and again to that solemn sentence, “he […]
