Walter Rhein Podcast

Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off Years ago I knew a guy who’d met his wife when he was working as a youth Bible counselor. She’d been around 15, he’d been around 30, and she was one of his students. He was an adult. She was a child. He was her teacher. It is not appropriate to meet your wife this way. For some reason our society is reluctant to recognize that this is predatory...

Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off Hello Friends! I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been kind of slow pedaling through August. I’m trying to squeeze in a few final memories with my kids. We didn’t take any major trips this year, but we’ve been to a couple of water parks and we keep taking trips down the river. With the American gestapo scourging the countryside looking fo...

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If you’ve been thinking of sponsoring me, why not do so today :) Upgrade at 30% off I see a lot of posts that begin with the disclaimer “It’s not wrong to be a billionaire.” Every time I see that, I can’t help but wonder what compels people to write those words? Why do they feel the need to endlessly repeat that assertion? Are they attempting to make it true through endless, unthinking indoctrinat...

Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off This article originally appeared on Medium around Thanksgiving in 2023. Yesterday one of my readers left a comment that my work sometimes made him depressed. He kindly emphasized that he felt my writing was important, but mentioned that the depressing state of our dystopian reality can be too much to take in all at once. In the past, I have mad...

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If you’ve been thinking of sponsoring me, why not do so today :) Upgrade at 30% off This article is in response to Melissa Corrigan, she/her who recently put out a call for responsible men to denounce the ongoing Republican/Conservative attacks on women. I know there are a few of you who will publish your own thoughts on this subject (heck, publish a thousand thoughts, let’s put an end to this kin...

Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off I remember my first days as a young teacher. There was one student that the staff recognized as being highly intelligent. I was excited to meet him, but I was surprised to discover I felt slightly intimidated on the first day of class. He came in quietly and took his seat. He carefully arranged his notebook and his pen. He moved with precision...

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If you’ve been thinking of sponsoring me, why not do so today :) Upgrade at 30% off “Everybody’s a tough guy behind a keyboard.” I hear people grumble that comment whenever they see something they don’t like on social media. “That person wouldn’t have dared say that to my face because he knows I would have punched his lights out.” When people hear these complaints, they generally nod in agreement....

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Don’t forget to tip! I appreciate you all! At 16, I sent off my first story to a paying market. I’d yet to sell a short story, but I’d had articles accepted for publication in both paying and nonpaying markets. For this one, I decided to pull out all the stops. I went down to the dime store and bought some fancy stationery that resembled a marble slab. I thought that added gravitas. Finally, I pri...

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Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off I thought you might all need a little break, so here’s a more lighthearted reflection on finishing my 20th American Birkebeiner from a couple years ago. I woke up thinking about death. I was about to compete in one of the world’s most physically challenging endurance events and, as always, it kind of scared me. Like every year, I didn’t know if...

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Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off Sometimes it feels as if the whole world is standing around with their hands in their pockets while horrible people abuse the innocent in plain view. I often find myself wanting to pull out my hair and scream, “Stop!” But when I do take action, an odd thing happens. Many of the observers who were standing around doing nothing suddenly become ro...

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Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off My heart always goes out to anyone who is struggling through dark times. I know how it feels to descend so deep it’s as if there’s no point in trying. I wish I had the words to convey how to escape such a place. Perhaps I keep working on the map in preparation for the next time I fall into the trap. There have been multiple times that has happe...

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Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off One of the main things that keeps us divided is how people can be tricked into defending a statistically irrelevant position. I've observed this happen both among groups that are defiantly hateful, and those that are defined by reason and intellect. Ultimately, we are all vulnerable to the seduction of pride. Once anyone becomes invested in a f...

Even writers can become complacent about free speech. We take it for granted because it’s something we’ve always had. But the truth is, freedom of speech is unusual. Throughout most of human history, it’s not a right that most populations have possessed. It’s important to be deliberate in our ability to express ourselves. We can’t be delusional about insisting we still have freedoms we’ve already...

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Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% off August is the time to go to the water park. Though there’s still a whole month of summer that remains, once the calendar is flipped you feel as if you’re clutching a root overhanging Charybdis to prevent yourself from sliding into the gnashing teeth. We went on a Sunday with a forecasted high of 78. I chose the park I used to visit when I was y...

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