by Gary Ivey | Apr 20, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
In 2010 I began working on something that I called Thine Is the Kingdom. It was a historical novel based on the book of 1st Samuel in the Bible. I wrote it from the viewpoint of a number of characters, some named in the Bible, some mentioned but not named, and some...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 12, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
Examining the historicity of 1st & 2nd Samuel, continued In the previous post, I started my look at the historicity of some of the favorite stories in the Bible, which are the subject of my new novel Quest for a King, the first book of the proposed “Age of...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 12, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
Examining the historicity of 1st & 2nd Samuel I read A LOT as a child. I attended a very small denominationally operated school with a fittingly small library. By the time I left the school I had read every book in the library at least once. I remember from my...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
I’ve always loved history. I know, I’m a nerd, but not just a history nerd; I’ve been a band nerd, an audio-visual nerd and a coding nerd. I love history enough that I have always read books on history and watched documentaries without it being...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2023 | Age of the Kingdom Series, Current Posts, The Bible, Writing
If you are a friend on Facebook, you know I’ve been focused on writing screenplays of late, but a series of events led me to dust off a novel I had worked on and had thought was finished, but I now realize I needed to rethink it. Part of the rethinking was due...
by Gary Ivey | Oct 19, 2022 | Current Posts
So every once in a while, I do a personal blog, as opposed to a political blog, to update on what’s been going on. I haven’t posted about this until now, because it was a new thing, and I wasn’t sure how I’d do, but I just wrote a screenplay...
by Gary Ivey | Sep 10, 2022 | Current Events, Current Posts, Energy and Environment
We often hear, “We will soon run out of oil” as a reason to abandon gasoline-powered vehicles, but we shouldn’t accept that statement at face value. There are at least two assertions which require backing up with facts: 1) “We will run out of...
by Gary Ivey | Aug 28, 2022 | Current Events, Current Posts, Energy and Environment
Articles this week declared that California is moving forward with a total ban on the sale of gasoline powered vehicles by 2035. Everyone knows that California is a state on wheels, with around 2 million vehicle registrations each year, so that is a huge move that...
by Gary Ivey | Aug 21, 2022 | Current Events, Current Posts, Energy and Environment, Government Abuse, Politics
I guess I was in college the first time I heard Credence Clearwater Revival’s Apocalyptic-themed song “I See a Bad Moon Rising.” Good chance, since they recorded it in 1969 and I started college in 1970. The song is all about bad things happening...
by Gary Ivey | Jun 28, 2022 | Current Posts
In the space of less than one week, the Supreme Court has handed down four rulings that are not just historic, but seismic in terms of their political and societal implications. Each of the rulings are major victories for freedom, though those on the left may not see...
