As a career NASA Space Life Sciences Engineer, I realized that there are many potential lessons to be learned directly and personally about human physiology when immersed in an alien environment. Sure, we can call it an “off-nominal” environment or an “other-than-one-Earth-normal” environment. But let’s just call it what it is – an environment where humans cannot survive unless they bring their own life support system. Like I said, an alien environment. And it was in one of these alien environments that I discovered that I was a nitrogen canary. Long before the days when there were such things as…

  Life is truly fascinating. The infamous “they” are quite fond of assuring us that “things happen in threes.” Bad things. Good things. Strange things. Unexpected things. And so it happens that in the past three weeks, I have crossed paths with three CIA agents. For real. But, of course, I can neither confirm nor deny that this ever really happened…. One of my God given talents is to befriend strangers and listen to their life stories. Hollywood lore would have us believe that all three of these spies will now have to kill me simply because they shared their…

PUBLIC NOTICE OF GOOD CHEER AND CELEBRATION TO THE LIMITS OF FLORIDA LAW Temple Church Holiday Celebration – 28 December 11AM-3PM! Dixie Crossroads, Titusville. Please RSVP soon! Another announcement will be sent ASAP. Please plan to bring your more than extraordinary good time plans with you and unpack them immediately on arrival!     In our mostly pagan culture, I am amused by the number of times I see the word “FAITH” tossed out as an empty aphorism, or a commercial product expressed as a standalone token – the “feeling” of “FAITH” just represented as the single word FAITH. Period….

SAVE THE DATE! February 28 – March 2, 2025 Hurricane Milton swept through Florida in mid-October and forced us to have to move our Convent and Investiture to another date.  After much deliberation by Temple Church’s Executive Committee, the date of the Spring 2025 C&I has been set and subsequently approved by our Grand leadership. It is now pinned on the GPUSA calendar. It will be held on the weekend of February 28 through March 2. The really great news is that hardly anything has changed! All of the places we had scheduled for the 12 October C&I are the…

SAVE THE DATE! February 28 – March 2, 2025 Hurricane Milton swept through Florida in mid-October and forced us to have to move our Convent and Investiture to another date.  After much deliberation by Temple Church’s Executive Committee, the date of the Spring 2025 C&I has been set and subsequently approved by our Grand leadership. It is now pinned on the GPUSA calendar. It will be held on the weekend of February 28 through March 2. The really great news is that hardly anything has changed! All of the places we had scheduled for the 12 October C&I are the…

I want to take this opportunity to wish each of you a very blessed Veteran’s Day.  As we unwind from a terrifically unsettling and divisive election cycle, we also want to wish each of you peace that only our Lord can provide. As citizens of the greatest nation on Earth, we still have the Constitutional right to start over and refresh the tree of liberty on every cycle as we the people desire! Many of us who are military veterans have invested a significant amount of blood, sweat and tears in that Constitutional privilege and its many other costly blessings….

  I was six fathoms down under the surface of the sea on a NASA assignment to Key Largo in early 1993. I was there to hold a business meeting concerning testing some of our advanced life support systems concepts with some of the managers of the MarineLab and Jules habitats located 100 feet away across the bottom of the same undersea lagoon. I’m not going to lie – if the Lord hadn’t graciously provided me with this opportunity, I would have killed for this particular job assignment! Claudia is my permanent dive partner and we always dive together. So,…

I am a novelist. As the guy behind the pen, I have the superpower to create individual lives and stories and adventures out of thin air for personal rewards of passion and money. But I am careful. Doing things for passion and money can get one in trouble fast. French writer Ferenc Molnár said, “Writing is a bit like prostitution. First, I did it for my own pleasure. Then I did it for my friends. Now I do it for the money.” As a writer I am delightfully aware that I write about characters that I create and into which…

Believe me when I say that as 21st-century Templars, we still go out on our daily battlefields, and – on more days than not – we each get beaten up by circumstances, surprises, unexpected insults, and often from blind-sided sword strikes from our own friends and family. Even the commonly appearing monster of disappointment stalks us on a regular basis. And with the Word as our guide, the closer you are to God, the more the enemy stalks you, offering even more pain and discouragement. The great Prophet Ezekiel was so exhausted from his daily assaults that after one extraordinarily…

As believers called by our Lord to pledge our oath, accept the accolade as Templars, and devote ourselves to stand in the gap for our fellow Christians who are at risk in the Holy Land, many find ourselves frustrated and concerned about the escalating hostilities in the region and the tremendous negative impacts on the body of Christ there. We are Templars. We are wired by God for action. We want to DO something to help – NOW! Here is great news: Just as our forefathers lent aid directly to the body of Christ at risk in the Holy Land,…