James Stramaglia has been working in the court systems for the majority of his professional life. He is now the Assistant Administrator of the Court Reporting Services of Will County Illinois. It was a career path that began unexpectedly; you could even say unknowingly.  After graduating from high school, James

There is an old saying, ‘You cannot make an omelette unless you are willing to break some eggs!’ This has many meanings but one meaning refers to the fact you may have to risk something and not look back to get something you want, because you cannot put the egg back in the shell. The

I have been thinking a lot lately about the differences between men and women regarding their different approaches to mating and dating. It is common knowledge that men are made to want to spread their seed as far and as wide as they can. While women are made to find

by MICHAEL BRESCIANI  09/01/2020 Without resorting to entire theological treatise to explain it, and it being most likely that a secular mind would hardly care, much less understand it, one single Bible verse will do fine. “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require

By Gerjo Ben Van Der Merwe  September 05, 2021 Some people are all thumbs. They can’t fix anything that’s broken in the house. They don’t even know what tools to use. Well, many of them don’t even have a toolbox that’s worth mentioning. But some others can fix anything. It’s as

I have a friend from graduate school that I recently heard from over the Christmas holiday. We had studied Instructional Technology at Northern Illinois University and gone to church together occasionally. I asked him if he would like to do an interview for Men of Value. He declined saying that

I remember many years ago, having a debate about religion with a guy who was a Christian Scientist. He said something in his zeal to convince me that the Lord was not actively involved in the world that I thought was very profound. When I told him that Jesus loved

Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged involves a mystery of a man named John Galt. An inventor who refuses to allow the United States government to control his invention. He forms a community of like-minded individuals who believe in the sanctity of work and self-direction. Now I confess I have not

We usually associate anger with an intolerance of others. But what if the intolerance is toward one’s self. The familiar pathway for anger tends to be an attempt to humiliate or intimidate those whose worldview is incongruent with one’s own. This sense of entitlement emanates from feelings of superiority, arrogance, or even narcissism.

Andrew Jackson was a character. Thomas Jefferson was afraid of him. The Native Americans feared and hated him. The people of the United States loved him. No one could ignore him. Donald Trump reminds me of Andrew Jackson, a lot. Both of them got things done no matter who got