Happy Easter and Spring 2026!

Today is Tuesday March 31, 2026. It is my birthday. It is the final trading-day of the first quarter. The 2026 tax-filing deadline here in the United States is only two weeks away. The stock market on Wall Street is in, or near, correction territory, being 10% down from its recent January highs. Washington D.C. is in a partial government shutdown because of the massive amount of debt and budget impasse.

Presently, the sovereignty and territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine is entering its fifth year. If Ukraine is required to relinquish eastern territory to Russia to secure a peace-deal, then Russia's Putin should be required to step down as President. Russia's President Putin has proven himself an unreliable ally and threat to peace and security in Eastern Europe. There is, also, a regional war in the Middle-East at the Strait of Hormuz entering its fifth week. The Allied Forces of U.S., Israel, and others are disputing with Iran over its nuclear weapons capabilities, supporting international terrorism, suppression of its own citizens, and other issues. At the present moment, the military conflict at the Strait of Hormuz does not appear it will grow into a larger broader conflict, but neither side appears willing to negotiate a cease-fire. 

On personal matters, the legal dispute, in which I am involved, is currently making its way through the courts. I have all confidence I will be fully exonerated and vindicated, both legally and ethically. Additionally, I have been unable to sign-in or login to several of my social media accounts, including Facebook, for several months. I was not given any reason, notice, or warning of the account lockout and nobody at Facebook will return my messages or calls. I spent $2,500 on Facebook Ads over the past 10 years, and I lost access to photos and videos. I advise people to take extreme caution with their social media accounts, either for your personal or business use.

Springtime has officially begun and it is the Easter 2026 Holiday Week for the Christian Faithful. I am a Bible-believing Christian Baptist. I will be celebrating Easter Sunday by watching and participating in various online services around the world. However, there are many Faith Traditions celebrating the coming of Spring, and in the interest of inter-faith dialog, I want to wish all those celebrating Spring 2026 a happy and joyous season.

America, and the world, is very different today than when my grandparents were born in the first decade of the 1900's. The scientific and technological advances of the past century has forced a re-examination of most traditions and social institutions, including the Christian Church. The HP Windows Personal Computer on which I am currently writing this weblog-post has forty-times the computing capability of an $8 million super-computer of the late 1970's. It currently contains a small library of more than 4,000 digital e-books. For example, this laptop has all the legal codes and laws of the State of North Carolina for the year 1938, and a 2,000 volume searchable Wikipedia Encyclopedia. It contains most of the known sacred holy religious texts available of all the major Religion Faith Traditions, with extensive searchable commentary. It also contains modern college textbooks on dozens of various majors and subject matter.

This kind of technology was inconceivable to my grandparents 100 years ago. The availability of online degree programs in Philosophy, Theology, Religion, Biblical Studies, Classics and other Humanities places a world-class education only a computer mouse-click away. Furthermore, most of the material pertaining to these specific areas of studies is free-of-charge. The copyright has expired on much of this material many years ago. Until recently, a person needed to pay sky-high tuition rates to have access to the books and other learned material. Placing this material out of reach to most people. Today's technology has liberated all the learned material of the 1700's, 1800's, and early 1900's that was previously guarded behind the very high walls of academia and entrenched professionals.

I want to wish everyone a very Happy Easter and Spring 2026!