Ott Observations

For some of us, one election issue is a concern some legislators want to defund police.  In fact, this is only a handful of extremists in the Democratic Party and…

Lately I’ve been binge-watching “The Chosen.” If you’re not familiar with the series, it is an historical drama based on the life of Jesus as seen through his disciples. Now…

Probably the most famous political debates in American history are the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.   Abraham Lincoln was running for a Senate seat against Stephen Douglas.  They agreed to…

In the summer of 1978, I graduated from college and moved to Delaware to start my career with the DuPont Company. Joe Biden was a first-term senator representing Delaware.  I…

den’s presidency that I hear from conservative friends is that he is weak on defense and our country is more vulnerable than ever.   It is, in fact, a very…

So much has already been written and said about the 2020 presidential election that I hesitate to add more. I look at the issue a little differently, though. Donald Trump’s…

College student pro-Palestinian protests have dominated the news cycle of late.   University administrators have been struggling to find the right balance between respecting freedom of speech, protecting students from…

I often attend a weekly men’s Bible discussion group. We review the upcoming readings for Sunday and discuss what they mean to us. A few months ago, we were reading…

Recently, I attended a religious retreat. I gave a talk on the retreat about my faith journey.  There are three words that are critical to my journey that all start…