You certainly have done your homework. But I appreciate that.
I thought a lot about your reply. The article in Guideposts written by me, was about an event in my boyhood. They entitled it ‘The Chalice’ – when Catholic digest asked for the rights to publish the story, they called it ‘The Sacrilege’.
It was the story of me when as an aimless and Godless youngster I stole, destroyed and sold a priest’s chalice from our local Catholic Church. When apprehended they sent me to a youth institution. While there I found that the priest whose chalice I had stolen was the Catholic chaplain in that detention center.
It took a while but when I asked him to forgive me for taking his chalice, given to him by his parents on the day of his ordination, he said he had already forgiven me.
That was the beginning for me. I began to think that there must be a God if someone could be that forgiving and kind. It was why I finally chose to go to God and eventually become a minister.
The priest and I remained friends all of my life.
As for other dealings with Free Republic. When my headline ‘New Orleans, A Carnival of Corruption’ got bounced today and I was labeled a ‘pimp’ – I could not have been more insulted.
Jeff Crouere, the author, has been a contributor to the New American Prophet website for about twenty years and is friend as we both live in the New Orleans area. I have appeared as a guest on his political show.
I love conservative politics, so I publish a lot of good stuff to keep people informed of what is going on in that tumultuous realm. But my main focus is Christ and His gospel. So rather than publishing excerpts to get people to my site – I publish to get them to the gospel.
They come for the politics, but they also get the gospel.
So if I have an ulterior motive in sending the excerpts – that is it.
Thanks MB
PPS, yes I once was a never Trumper – those days are long gone.
Without a link, that is an assertion. Web searches for Crouere's shows detail quite a number of guests, but not you. A link, if you have one, would settle an assertion into a fact.
--- "I could not have been more insulted."
Well, yes you could. I just came across an 'assertion,' for which I can provide a link, by Gary Rowe, Gloria's son, that mentions "wanna be pastor micheal bresciani." "...a self proclaimed prophet..." Don't want to fall into doxxing, but that's available, should you wish that link.
--- "...I once was a never Trumper – those days are long gone."
As with other conversions of which you write, that seems a good one.
Nonetheless, a more definitive search using several more search engines shows FR to be the main focus, all the while you wrote to Mr. Robinson, "Do not flatter yourselves; we have two other regular submission sites that bring in a hundred times more readers than FR and all our other submissions combined."
Now that's an interesting assertion, tinged with braggadocio. "...we have two other regular submission sites...."
Chalmette is lovely this time of year. 91° and humid.