The Unfinished Trust Exercise
Failure as a human being and as a leader. The curse of self-awareness. When I was young, I had a strange experience. One that…
YankeeJock
Navigating faith, family & freedom, across the Atlantic.
YankeeJock
Navigating faith, family & freedom, across the Atlantic.
Category Religion
Ordinary Seaman, Original Sinner.
Zero Nets, after Net Zero. In many ways, I am dismissive of people classed as ‘conspiracy theorists’ on the internet these days, not because…
Village Fate
What does it mean to believe in fate? Why bother with the ‘Christian Label’? We Merchant Sailors live a hungry freelance existence. Your dream…
Ne Obliviscaris – Dinnae Forget
(This was written last week but delayed publishing. I’ve had a busy week, with my second command at sea, my 3-year-old son breaking his…
Revelations of Easter
Alright, so I have had as many problems with the God-squad as the rest of us in the West. Paedo priests, woke churches, kumbaya…
Are You Evil Enough to See?
‘The individual is so handicapped, by coming face-to-face, with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists.’ – J. Edgar Hoover, 1956. The…
The Miracle of the Literal Christian
To paraphrase the comedian Owen Benjamin, When Jesus Christ said: ‘This bread is my body and this wine is my blood’, that dude was…
The Un-Tied Kingdom
There has been much debate about the possibility of the collapse of the Union between Scotland and England this year. Such commentary has increasingly…
Dreams
I have had some recurring dreams in my life. I have viewed them with some wonder because they have stayed in my mind as…
Hello Yankee Jockers
Welcome to the Yankee Jock blog. A place to discuss Scottish and American values. For those who don’t know, ‘Jock’ isn’t just a type…