Wilmington Ohio

10 Nov., 2016 You Don’t Want Portman Watching Your Back . . .Unless You’re Pretty Hard Up After Jesus, my next favorite candidate for the 2016 Presidential race would have been Ben Carson. These failing, I was left with Mr. Trump. But I like him a ton more than Hitlery. And the Lord knows I […]

10 Nov., 2016 I was glad to see Mr. Steed returned to service as a County Commissioner. He knows something about running a business and maintaining services within a budget. Politicians would do well to learn that skill prior to running for office. But more important even than such budgetary wisdom, perhaps, is the embrace of […]

29 February, 2016 The Wilmington News Journal (Wilmington, Ohio) has been featuring sermons from four pastors from as many churches in town swapping pastors among themselves: Wilmington Church of Christ, Dove, Church of God (A-Street), and Faith Family Church. The topic was marriage and the unspoken impetus was the decree regarding marriage recently issued by the U.S. […]

A Course Proposal Sent to Wilmington College (Wilmington, Ohio) 27 April 2012 “Theocracy is an inescapable concept. The source of law in any given society is de facto that society’s God—whether it be the God of the Bible, Allah, or ‘the People,’ or a dictator, or secular humanist elites. It doesn’t matter, whoever defines your […]

Pearl Harbor Day, 2015 The Daily Beast reported on 4 December 2015 on a speech of Ohio attorney Tom Condit delivered in front of a Dayton abortuary – on which we had also, with a much better attitude, reported some months ago [http://michaelbray.org/?p=1921]. The beastly link and the article follow: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/04/pro-life-attorney-we-need-a-nuremberg-for-abortion-doctors.html WAR ON WOMEN 12.04.154:20 PM ET Pro-Life Attorney: […]

A Public Declaration from the Churches of God To the Community On Sodomy and the Desecration of Holy Matrimony Recommended by Michael Bray, 23 October, 2015 We were taught as children and then did teach our own children not to follow the crowd and do foolish things just because “everyone else” was doing them. So […]

Michael Bray 8 September 2015 Since we have embarrassed God – no, slighted Him – no, offended Him by our selfish stupidity, observable among all the peoples – we have a big problem. We have tolerated rather than prosecuted the practice of sexual perversion. Now, we who have refused to oppose evil will ourselves be opposed […]

See the video here: He begins with apologies for his profession: “It is its twisted lawyers and its twisted judges which got us here.” One of his favorites scenes from the film industry, he recounts, comes out of “The Exorcist.” There is a scene where the priest somberly warns those who are contending with the […]

Delivers a Speech Before a Crowd of a Few Hundred 28 July, 2015 The Theme is “Women Betrayed” following the rash of reports on PP’s exploitation of women and trafficking in baby parts. He begins with apologies for his profession: “It is its twisted lawyers and its twisted judges which got us here.” One of […]

4 Feb., 2015 Mayor Riley has used his bully pulpit well on many occasions, cheering us on as a city, as a community. And he has done well in urging us to good citizenship, inspiring us through his Wilmington News Journal columns to be thankful by pointing us to the many excellent features and opportunities […]

April, 2008 Before discussing very briefly a thought about the Day of Silence, it seems good to clarify appropriate terminology for discussing the topic of homosexuals and the proper way to treat them in the public school: whether with disdain and aloofness on the one hand or indifference and toleration on the other. Let us […]

3 May, 2010 College mission statements, like ancient laws, national codes and constitutions, sometimes fall into desuetude – out of fashion, out of favor, ignored. If such statements or decrees are alleged to reflect Divine law, then the people – now indifferent – have gone astray. If there is no Law (as Modernists would have […]

17 July 2007 To bar or not to bar the (Confederate) flag at fair booths is the question asked and answered by the editor (Journal, 17 July 2007). Mr. Huffenberger alleges the flag to be “an emblem of slavery,” a “racist symbol” unbefitting the “fairground landscape.” Before attempting to utter a word in defense of […]

17 February 2009 Anno Domini Citizen of Wilmington: As we approach spring, a new school-sponsored club, the “Gay Straight Alliance” (GSA) is planning its Day of Silence (with the help of its two Wilmington High School faculty “advisors”) for April 17, 2009. This is the second “Day of Silence” event which has occurred at Wilmington […]

Michael Bray 23 July 2008 Wilmington or Pottersville? What’s God got to do with it? How many times have you wondered or heard another speculate (or expostulate) upon the role of the Deity concerning world events: He brought this or that judgment or blessing? More often, in modern times, we are more inclined to ascribe […]

7 December 2007 A Letter to Jim Fife: It was good to see you at the basketball game. And I was glad to hear that you are seeking to serve as a County Commissioner. That office has been on my mind a lot in recent months as the casino debacle has been moving upon us. […]

Michael Bray November, 2008 Clinton County and the Casino: Election Results The results of the 2008 election bode good and bad. While state wide the voters rejected the MyOhioNow casino pushers’ proposal by nearly a 2-1 margin, Clinton County voted in favor 10,547 to 8,168. The fact the Clinton County, normally a conservative area of […]

Casino Meditaions Fall 2007 The three Clinton County Commissioners, like three blind mice, don’t know where they (and we) are going. They cannot tell light from darkness, but they sure can smell the cheese. Did they go out to lunch with the casino men when they showed up on August 29 at the Commissioners meeting? […]