New Deal Murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel are located in the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. The art cannot be viewed by the public. The Cohen Building is closed. The Cohen Building and other older federal buildings are slated for sale and eventual demolition. They might destroy the murals, but they cannot erase our collective consciousness, what we remember and pass down to our children. #wilburjcohenbuilding #philipguston #benshahn

In his famous parable of the wheat and chaff, Jesus clearly differentiated between the children of God, or the good seeds, and the chaff, who are the wicked among us. In Monetizing Jesus, by Glen Randall Bell, PhD, he gives us the tools of discernment, so we can clearly separate the wheat from the chaff.  

Two thousand years separate the Roman Marcus Licinius Crassus in his failed attempt to invade Iran from President Donald J. Trump’s faltering current military effort. Nevertheless, they share the same character flaws that led them to make disastrous decisions. Crassus’s effort resulted in the Roman Army’s worst defeat since the Battle of Cannae against Hannibal. Trump has lost fewer than a dozen soldiers as of the end of the first month in the Iranian War, but if he continues to follow Crassus’s path, the outcome could be similar.