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Know Jack #354 It’s Alive!
Well, the monster seems to have come to life. I’ve laid the Colonel to rest and I’m moving away from much of the writing theme here in...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 25, 20222 min read


Lost Crusader #141 Turning a Profit
“But godliness with contentment is great gain.” 1Timothy 6:6 It is ironic that the wisest man who lived was perhaps also the world’s...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 19, 20222 min read


The Colonel #103 Taps
“…As we go, this we know, God is nigh.” –Taps Jack: “Colonel, we’re retiring you. Time for the old soldier’s home.” Me clutching my chest...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 18, 20222 min read


Know Jack #353 Creating a Monster
“I was working in the lab late one night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight…” What do writers do when they are working things out? I’m...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 18, 20222 min read


Know Jack #352 The Plot Thickens
“By the way, Jesus forgives, but I don't think I can ever forgive you for killing Penny of Fat Girls Cafe off. I just can't let you off...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 18, 20222 min read


Lost Crusader #140 From Forsaken to Fruitful
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying… My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46 Entry into the...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 12, 20223 min read


The Colonel #102 Choose to be Free
“Time is the very lens through which ye see—small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope—something that would...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 11, 20222 min read


Know Jack #351 Dancing in the Dark.
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” Erica Jong I may be terribly wrong, but...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 11, 20222 min read


Lost Crusader #139 So Let it be Written
“Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE JEWS “Then many of the Jews read...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 5, 20222 min read


The Colonel #101 Death From Above
“We make a mistake in thinking about politics simply in terms of a Left versus Right dynamic. The opportunity today really lies in a Top...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 5, 20222 min read


Know Jack #350 Say, Have you Heard the One About
“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return again…the thing that...

Jack LaFountain
Jun 3, 20222 min read


Lost Crusader #138 Same Difference
“There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities...

Jack LaFountain
May 30, 20222 min read


The Colonel #100 Memories
“…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we...

Jack LaFountain
May 28, 20222 min read


Know Jack #349 Both Sides
“I’ve looked at life from both sides now, From win and lose and still somehow, It’s life’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know...

Jack LaFountain
May 27, 20222 min read


Lost Crusader #137 Tell Me the Story
“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were...

Jack LaFountain
May 22, 20222 min read


The Colonel #99 Entitled to the Truth
“A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”...

Jack LaFountain
May 21, 20222 min read


Know Jack #348 Fairy Tales Are Not For the Faint of Heart
“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” C.S. Lewis Writers must have a sense of child-like wonder. You may...

Jack LaFountain
May 20, 20222 min read


Lost Crusader #136 What Price Victory
“For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ…because we know that as you are partakers...

Jack LaFountain
May 15, 20222 min read


The Colonel #98 Phantom Rights
The Declaration of Independence expresses the American ideal that government should exist to protect our natural right to life, liberty,...

Jack LaFountain
May 14, 20223 min read


Know Jack #347 The Unseen Hand
“The Great Oz has spoken…pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” From the Wizard of Oz There is a certain amount of magic and...

Jack LaFountain
May 13, 20222 min read
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