As promised in our April 2026 GWFW newsletter article “The Importance of Prudence in Leadership,” I wish to write about prudence in political and public life. You may wish to go back to that article. If you desire a copy of that article, please email or text GWFW and we will send it to you (Tom@godswordforwarriors.com; 615-430-3544). Why is prudence such an important issue in political and public life? First of all, good government is not just a matter of principle alone, of laws and...

[See Part 2: The Importance of Prudence HERE.] Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Dominican Philosopher and Theologian, a thirteenth-century European who reshaped Western philosophy as no other was noted for saying that prudence is the “Queen of Moral Virtues.” Of the cardinal virtues, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance, I would venture to say that Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they would degenerate into folly and excess. But what is prudence? Maybe it helps...

I was reading a few days ago the words of a veteran as he recalled what he experienced in the past from being downrange in Iraq following an encounter with the enemy: “ I have never been shot at in my civilian life. I have never been blown up in my civilian life. I have never lost an ‘adopted’ child to a suicide bomber in my civilian life. And, I have never had to listen to a man’s death over the Med-Evac frequency in my civilian life. All those things happened during my year in Iraq.”...