Sage Soul Guide

08/07/2026

Back in the day when I worked with the UGA Fanning Leadership Center, now known as the J. W. Fanning Leadership Institute, I worked with the Ketttering Foundation and their National Forums Institute on public policy issues.

Take about 15 minutes to listen to this video. Neal Katyal is the attorney who successfully argued to the Supreme Court that the POTUS’ tariffs, implemented by his executive order, were unconstitutional. He is now in the process of going through federal court to appeal a decision to stop PACs from contributing unlimited amounts of money to campaigns.

“Dinner Table Action v. Schneider” is the name of the law suit, and this video easily explains the way this law suit and the state of Main is working to stop the “Citizens United” ruling that got us to the point we are today where too many elected representatives, national and state, are owned and supported by wealthy people with an agenda rather than the majority of citizens.

In this episode of _The Stakes,_ host Brad Rourke talks with Ketter...

07/24/2026

This quote is from Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was a human being with clay feet and his own failings just like all of us. The current POTUS, his administration, and the Republican Party have strayed extremely far from this care and thinking for this country. By the way, President Eisenhower was a WWII General—D Day, you recall—and a devout Presbyterian.

I invite you to read Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack for today especially if you support the current president.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed,” he said. “This world in arms is not spending money alone.

“It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”

“This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense,” he said. “Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

I have been thinking lately about taxes and war and citizens and what the government should do for its people.

07/19/2026

Dr. Stacy Patton, a faculty member of Howard University, has a Substack where on Sundays she becomes “Rev. Dr. Staceypants” and preaches. Her articles are all insightful and should cause “white people” to think and not just react in disbelief and anger. She writes the truth, and that is no small thing. Today’s sermon is fabulous!
I encourage you to subscribe to her Substack. I do. Now, please settle in and read from start to finish. You’re welcome.

A Sunday Sermon on Salty Racist Men, Stolen Myths, and Who Gets to Be Beautiful

07/16/2026

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This needs to be said loudly with a microphone. “The Church literally selected, edited, and compiled what’s known as the Bible.”
Not a debatable truth. Truth. Discussion about it, sure. Denying this truth is the Branding of Christian Nationalism and support of Project 2025. Do not be misled.

07/16/2026

This needs to be said loudly with a microphone. “The Church literally selected, edited, and compiled what’s known as the Bible.”
Not a debatable truth. Truth. Discussion about it, sure. Denying this truth is the Branding of Christian Nationalism and support of Project 2025. Do not be misled.

06/21/2026

is an outstanding encourager, teacher, and writer. I support her by subscribing to her Substack blog. I invite you to read her regular “Sunday Sermon”. Go subscribe to support the work she does for those in need.
WARNING: Unless you are willing to believe that you are not certain about your opinions, do not bother reading.

The doors of the church are open.

06/14/2026

Sharing from Benjamin Cremer because it seems appropriate for this day.

06/12/2026

Mary Madelene was the first apostle—the first person to see the Risen Christ and the first person to share the good news/gospel with the other disciples.

03/29/2026

Best sign from the No Kings protest yesterday. I also like her Obama ‘08 shirt.