spiel (speel) n. voluble line of talk, glib, or extravagant talk often intended to impress, persuade, or deceive.

Satire (n. humorous literary ridicule often used to
convey rebuke or criticism or to expose folly or vice.
Exaggerating the real in order to show its absurdities.). 

 

“If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”

Quentin Crisp 

  

Thanks for stopping by! Al “Spiel” Speegle

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TV: Christian Witness Network

More Christian Witness Network Television

Christ the King Church and Country Club

Bark Like a Scab, an excerpt from Donald Miller’s latest book

CSI: Jerusalem

Mo Willems Christian books

The Screwtape E-mail

Follow me on Twiter

From Chaos to Cozumel and back

 

  

 

  

 

 

Introducing The TXT Messaging Bible

The Forgive or Forget Not Show

Thomas Weeks Sermon Notes

My Daily Devotional by Victoria Osteen

A Clear and Present Darkness

Over Comers Fear of Flying During the Rapture’ Course

Hal Lindsey’s new book, There’s a New Wife Coming!

The TBN Code

I Quit Smoking as of 9/25/03, 10/25, 11/14, 12/25

The Chi Files

My Turkeys Cooked … or-not

TBN PsyOps Manual 
Interviews:
My interview with author and threat to society James Watkins also found on James’s website, Live, Laugh, and Love

My interview with award-winning newspaper columnist for the Cape Cod Times and author of the psycho thriller Raw Nerves, Saralee Perel or visit the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop

A list of my published articles

Thanks to people I’ve been blessed with in life:

My wife and HERS 2+ cancer survivor Sandra, who has put up with me for thirty-three years, especially since my becoming a writer in 2000.

Robert Darden, author of thirty-something books and Senior Editor of The Wittenburg Door, The World’s Pretty Much Only Religious Satire Magazine, for publishing my first and many subsequent articles.

James Watkins, author, syndicated newspaper columnist, writer’s conference speaker, humorist, minister, web designer, and threat-to-society.

 

 

Frank Ball, head scribe of the North Texas Christian Writers Conference, speaker, and mentor to several Christian writers groups, and author of “Eyewitness: The Life of Christ Told in One Story.”
My fellow siblings of the Christian writer’s group, the Seed Sowers, for their encouragement, corrections, suggestions, and prayers.

 

“I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that”
(2 Corinthians 11:1, NIV).
© Alvin Speegle. All text and graphics on my sites, unless otherwise noted, are copy-righted © in my name, Alvin Speegle Jr.
and are protected by United States copyright law and international copyright law under the Berne Convention.
 

 

Favorite sites
List of World Wide Disaster Relief Agencies 

Airborne Angel Cadets-A Texas charity sending care packages of food, gifts, clothing, toiletries, movies, toys for local kids, medical supplies and other donations to American soldiers and troops serving in the United States Armed Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Mideast

Any Soldier (more troop support)

The Wittenburg Door The World’s Pretty Much Only Religious Satire Magazine

Why The Witenburg Door?

Trinity Foundation

North Texas Chrisitan Writers Conference

Mindflights

The Holy Observer

LarkNews

Live, Laugh, Love

Oxford American magazine

Ministries
Videos for Prisons

Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them.
Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but mulititudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.
– Johann Gutenberg

 

 

 

Aliens in the Church (co-authored with Steve Miller)

I’ve Seen the Future, Benny, and It’s Phrygia
Letter from Kabul