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March 2017

March 03, 2017
A deluge of anti-Semitic actions has occurred since the election. One report cited 124 incidents...

February 2017

February 25, 2017
This weekend, in a workshop on Islam, the leader illustrated the purpose of Islam’s five-times-a-day...
February 25, 2017
Truly I am not a sci-fi fan. I don’t read Asimov. I haven’t even seen...
February 24, 2017
This afternoon the Trump Administration’s Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, barred a number of news organizations...
February 19, 2017
There are so very many people who beseech us insistently to see them as more...
February 18, 2017
This may be the Best Film of the year. Already, it is one of the...
February 17, 2017
In this amazing year, 2017, four films about black life in America are among the...
February 14, 2017
The old law, Jesus calls it: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a...
February 10, 2017
Here's something else Donald Trump has brought to DC town:  blatant misogyny. It hasn’t been...
February 05, 2017
Like a dust storm blowing across the prairies, swearing has entered the common parlance in...
February 04, 2017
You’ll understand if I tell you I live near this town. It’s not an hour...

January 2017

January 30, 2017
The salt of the earth.  It used to be a fond and frequent phrase for...
January 22, 2017
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen stood in front of the State Capitol in Concord, NH, in the...
January 15, 2017
Nicodemus was flabbergasted that night, as he listened to Jesus talking to a crowd of...
January 09, 2017
Jesus had a penchant for giving people nicknames. He called Peter, who was often anxious,...
January 01, 2017
So this is the story, as the gospels tell it: the Child comes almost unnoticed...

December 2016

December 10, 2016
Why is it that we continue to cruelly twist Matthew’s and Luke’s stories of the...
December 04, 2016
Did the Russians hack the DNC’s emails? If they did, was it to promote the...
December 03, 2016
Remember the Pied Piper? He lured children to their deaths, offering them delightful illusions that...

November 2016

November 27, 2016
The Great Door of the Church Year swings open with the scraping noise of metal...
November 22, 2016
So if you remember the day Kennedy was shot in Dallas, 54 years ago, you...
November 13, 2016
There’s a dizzying, apocalyptic feeling in the air, in the wake of this election. And...
November 06, 2016
The reading for this week is apocalyptic.  Wars and insurrections, fighting and fear. Jesus does...
November 04, 2016
Here we are then. Battling in the polls over an election choice between the two...

October 2016

October 30, 2016
To say the least, it’s ironic that, on the Sunday before the US elections, after...
October 20, 2016
Friends, The Bite in the Apple will not be publishing this week or next, as...
October 15, 2016
Donald Trump has been deflecting accusations of groping an sexual assault leveled at him by...
October 09, 2016
My friend, Karen Baker Fletcher, wrote a comment about Donald Trump, asking if evangelicals who...

September 2016

September 27, 2016
In a small book called Random Acts of Kindness by Animals, there is a story...
September 23, 2016
Out of sight, out of mind, says the old adage. I wonder if the corollary...
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