James Atticus Bowden

James Atticus Bowden is a co-founder of the Virginia First Foundation. He is a retired U.S. Army Officer and Defense Consultant. His home of record upon entering the United States Military Academy was Arlington, Virginia. He graduated in 1972. Bowden served as an airborne, ranger infantry officer in 5 Divisions. He earned graduate degrees from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He taught as an Assistant Professor at USMA and Adjunct Faculty at the College of William and Mary.

Simple, Complex, Simple

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Think about almost anything…The first thought is simple.  Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear.

The first thought is simple.  Then, if you keep thinking and studying, layers of complexity with expanding horizons, exponential new factors, and conflicting facts appear.  Yet, after more thought and study, the holistic conclusion is simple.  A few words very loaded with meaning suffice.

American Is a Creed++

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Define American. Is it any person on planet Earth resides in the U.S. who simply shares a set of ideas – an American Creed? Or, is based on “blood and soil” connections by birth and ancestry? It definitely isn’t the Ethno-nationalism of a “Whites Only” America, because our America became multi-racial in 1619 when English …

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Betwixt and Between

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America is betwixt and between more things than you can shake a stick at.  The conflict with Iran is on the front burner.  Every election cycle at every level is another contest worth winning.  Every institution – Government, Business, Education, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Religion, and Family is caught in the crossfire of a No Mans Lands in the Great U.S. Culture War.  That’s the struggle against Cultural Marxism and it’s new, best ally – Islamist Totalitarianism.

Jesus’s Church in 2026!

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After the 50th Wedding Anniversary celebrations for a Classmate and his wife in Florida, another Classmate and I went to church with them before we left for home.  It was another Evangelical church on fire for the Lord Jesus Christ!  So much so that they are planting another church about 15 minutes away.  On their own.  No help from any church hierarchy or authority.

Happy Easter 2026!

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Usually, Sunday is when I pen (actually peck out) my weekly Op Ed.  What else should be written on Easter, other than Easter?  It’s the singularly greatest event since the creation of the Universe.  The point in time and space when the Creator of the Universe reconciled His created beings to Himself.  The Creator becoming one of his creations in the Incarnation is huge, but not as big as the Resurrection.

Good News for American Evangelical Protestants

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There’s always good news for Bible-based Evangelicals in the Good News of Lord Jesus Christ.  His Resurrection is celebrated every Sunday.  And, there’s good news in numbers, despite the gloom and doom data painting a Post-Christian America and death spiral for Western Civilization.  Bible-based Evangelical Protestants are growing – not as much as non-Believers and way less than possible, but growing.  Growing is good.

Virginia, Don’t Despair

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In Virginia, the Democrats have all the levers of power at the state level for at least 2 years. A Muslim took her oath of office on the Koran. The Democrats – I prefer to more accurately name them as the Bolsheviks they are – have a statewide majority. Ugh. But, despair not, Virginians. It’ll be a rough go, but we must never, never, never, never quit.