Don Veinot's Blog

As students of history, we enjoy reading books, articles, poems, speeches, and at times technical works, in their historical/grammatical context. This is true of the Bible as well as other historical works. Doing so gives us a genuine insight into the lives and thoughts of the people of yesteryear. We have spent a fair amount […]

We have mentioned Joy’s paternal grandfather, Albert, previously, in one or two articles. When we met, Don was not a believer, and at some point, Grandpa began praying for his salvation. He didn’t really know Don very well, so he must’ve made it a practice to pray for all his many grandchildren and their significant […]

Name-calling can be a rather nasty part of human interaction. Not that all name-calling is negative – it seems it can actually be a sort of bonding tactic, especially among males — who seem to enjoy throwing around names like Dude, Brother, Chief, Stud, Player, Playa, Killer, etc., with their best friends and/or teammates. Names […]

The popular NAR prophet, Jonathan Cahn, put out two recent videos claiming to reveal the “proof that there were actually witches and the practice of witchcraft behind the assassination” of Charlie Kirk. Generally, we don’t follow Cahn very closely but this past week, someone sent us a link to a Jonathan Cahn video and asked […]

Certain “larger than life” events in American history made an indelible impression on those who were living at the time. The Pearl Harbor attack, the assassination of JFK, the evil attacks on September 11, 2001, now simply known as 9/11. Now there is a new one, especially for Gen Z and some Millennials – the […]

Our friend, the  late Dr. James Sire, wrote a very helpful book, released on October 1, 1980, titled Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible.  This book has been a great help to many trying to understand the various ways the Bible can be misread.  People often misread the Bible quite unintentionally, simply […]

Ivani Greppi and I have been writing a series of articles on the rise of African diaspora religions in America today and their influence on American society. The religions discussed in the articles include Santeria, Palo Mayombe, and Haitian Voodoo. All of these religions originate from the Ifá divination system of Yorubaland in West Africa. The focus of this […]

In the book, Practically Radical, American writer, speaker, and entrepreneur William C. Taylor seems to have coined the phrase, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” This has applications in several areas, even including biblical translation and interpretation. We addressed this last week in “How Many True Gods Are There?” regarding the Watchtower Bible […]

What does it mean to be human? Are we merely physical beings with sentience (the ability to perceive or feel things) due to electrical activity in our material brain? When we breathe our last, and our material brain dies, do we simply cease to exist? This is a question which has been pondered by philosophers, […]

(Originally printed in the September/October 1996 Issue of the MCOI Journal) There is a cult system for everyone. There are more cults and cult-like organizations in our society today than I have space here to list. Each holds appeal for a different type of person, and it seems that all the bases are covered. For […]