Evil – Professional Copywriter | Wyalusing, PA Bradford County

Will We Continue to Ignore History’s Lessons?

The perceptions of good and evil can be reversed if we can rationalize a cause as moral and righteous. We’ve had it pretty good in this country. We’ve never had a military coup or any usurping of executive functions by the legislature or the military. There was that unfortunate storming of the capitol in a misguided attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but we can write that off a lesson learned. It’s just that we all [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-06-02T14:39:22+00:00June 2, 2022|American History, Evil, Gun Violence, History, Morality, World History, World War I, World War II|

Surviving Evil: Escape from the South Tower

Jeremy with wife, Karen, and nephew, Ben. Learning strengths of being a survivor. September 11th seldom passes without notice in our household, which has dwindled to an elderly couple in an empty nest. We were 19 years younger, still adjusting to the youngest of our two kids embarking on a career after college, when our world was rocked— mine while covering my news beat at the county courthouse and my wife in her classroom at the local [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:57+00:00September 16, 2020|death, Evil, First Responders, Hero, Terrorism, World Trade Center|

Racial Prejudice: How Far Have We Really Come?

The message of the evils of racism still falling on deaf ears. I had a blog written about how all of us are more alike than different, but it just doesn’t seem credible anymore. It’s reassuring to think we’re always going to have a happy ending here, as well as in the hereafter, and that we all have more goodness within us than iniquity. Maybe, but, then again, we may merely be a nation of strangers who [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:59+00:00June 3, 2020|American History, Bible, Evil, History, Lyrics, Racism, Truth, Victims|