KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Tongue
A STORE MANAGER heard his clerk tell a customer, "No, ma'am, we haven't had any for a while, and it doesn't look as if we'll be getting any soon..." Horrified, the manager came running over to the customer and said,...
WHEN SIR ERNEST Shackleton set out to sea in 1914, he did so with the ambitious goal of making the first land crossing of Antarctica... But his ship, the Endurance, never even reached its base camp. It became stuck in...
OFTENTIMES WE ASSOCIATE late-night TV shows, such as the Tonight Show, with celebrities... However, on January 21, 2009, Jay Leno interviewed an unusual guest: 15-year-old McKay Hatch. In 2007, Hatch founded his first No Cussing Club at his junior high...
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE for controlling our speech is to prevent harm... But controlling our words also has personal advantages for us. The main advantage is that people will respect us. Just think of how you react differently to a person...
MANY OF US indulge at every opportunity... We gorge ourselves with good, drink, clothes, television, sports, etc. Moderation does not come easily to us. Yet the foundation ethic of talk is self-control. Whoever we are, wherever we are, whatever we...
KARL MARX DEVOTED his entire life to writing about the demise of capitalism and the coming of communism... He, along with Friedrich Engels, wrote onen of the most well-known pollitical treatises in all of history, the Communist Manifesto. As...
NATIONWIDE, ALMOST FIVE million acres have been torched by wildfires this year... In Montana alone, 2,000 fires have raged over 457,000 acres. The Washington Post called it "a 100 year catastrophe" for the state (Susan Gallagher, "Western Wildfires Show No...
AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS RECENTLY discovered what's killing thousands of Tasmanian Devils on the island state of Tasmania... The scientists initially believed the deaths were caused by a virus; however, their research ultimately uncovered a rare, fatal cancer. They named it the...
IN AN INTERVIEW several years ago, former talk-show host Johnny Carson was asked about any regrets he had concerning his career... He responded, "I suppose one regret I have is some of the things I have said on the air....
ONCE A WORD is spoken it can never be retrieved... And once a reputation is ruined by slander, it can never be restored. I remember years ago when Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan was indicted by a grand jury and ultimately...
SHORTLY BEFORE HIS death, the Duke of Burgundy was presiding over the Cabinet Council of France... A proposal was made by the ministers that would violate a treaty but would secure important advantages for the country. Many reasons were offered...
WHEN MICHAEL MARCAVAGE attended a local council meeting of Landsdowne, Pennsylvania, where he resides, he attempted to express his objection to the council's agenda of attracting more homosexuals to the borough (Landsdowne is the first community in Delaware County to...
PICTURE THE MAJOR league baseball pitcher taking his warm-up pitches just before you... The batter steps up to the plate. The first pitch sails over the catcher's head and slams into the screen. The next one burrows wildly in the...