OUR TWO CENTS / tanataeditor AT mac DOT com
The three of us combined — now four with the addition of P.T. Paine, a Brit Different sort of fellow! — hold degrees in theology, psychology, literature, rhetoric, research methods and ancient history.
We have families that we dearly love, as you no doubt also have.
One of us has served this nation as a Naval intelligence 
Randall Carter Grayspecialist, with a top-secret clearance, in Africa (Egypt, Ethiopia/Eritrea), Greece and Saudi Arabia, and was injured on active duty.
One of us is expecting a baby, and her name is neither Simon nor Randall.
We believe all people should live in freedom and let others live the same way. We believe in helping any fellow human being in need, even to the point of personal sacrifice, to the extent that we can, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, nationality, profession or status.
We believe in peace and goodwill toward all people.
We resent and reject the intrusion in life on earth by any outside forces, material and spiritual, which have malicious intentions, overt or covert.
We believe in honesty, love, mutual respect, freedom of expression, good stewardship toward nature and kindness toward all living things.
We like or love wine, conversation, rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm and blues, classical music and funk/soul/gospel, writing, reading, retro, art deco, painting, spending time with our families, American football, smoking occasionally, our pets and Oriental cuisine … and Southern fried chicken. We’re all from the South and have various heritages: German, French, English and Cherokee, and, ultimately … African.
We believe that Jesus was a unique human being, virgin born of God the Creator, who possesses the DNA of all races — and therefore is uniquely able by his sacrifice to rescue all who wish to be rescued from evil. We believe in heaven and hell, and that we choose which. We believe God is love, and that he only passively judges and punishes and teaches us by withdrawing his protection, however slightly or greatly.
Until proven wrong, we believe that Mary Magdalene (originally conceived to be black) and the Queen of Sheba are fabrications, not real people, created to distract from Jesus being the composite of all races, and Solomon, the son of David, being of mixed race. (Magdala is in Ethiopia, Bathsheba was Solomon’s mother and … so)
We are citizens of the world, prepared to abide by the laws and mores of any culture or nation we happen to be in. We frown upon any utopian efforts by man to save this planet or mankind or himself, believing that only Jesus can and will deliver the earth and one day reign over a family of men and women in peace, justice and righteousness.
We are flawed, and we admit our mistakes.
Grace, kindness and peace to you,
Randall Carter Gray, Simon O. Seuss and Janet M. Devlin
(Simon, Janet and Rose have aksed that their photos not be posted. Randall is by no means as mean as he looks in this photo in which he was caught off guard.)