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September 2016

September 16, 2016
Driving in Maine a couple weeks ago, I saw a small building, looked like it...
September 10, 2016
Jesus told a story about a fellow who made himself rich twice. He was the...
September 09, 2016
The drought in New England is now extreme. Town bans on outside watering have been...
September 05, 2016
Loser is damnation incarnate. It’s the worst thing you can possible be. A nobody. And...
September 03, 2016
The seeds of dislike of immigrants have been sown in America since the days of...

August 2016

August 28, 2016
Harsh words from Jesus: “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother,...
August 20, 2016
Winning without humility – that’s what the American motto for the Olympics should be –...
August 19, 2016
I never heard of Sam Polk till recently. And I’d forgotten Ryan Lochte after the...
August 16, 2016
You can Google bent over women, and see some images that give you shivers. Women...
August 11, 2016
No, I haven’t read Trump’s book. The deal in play right now, though, is winning the...
August 06, 2016
Lordy, Lordy, it is our preoccupation, interpreting our times. From CNN panels to New York...
August 05, 2016
Harambe recently polled at 5% in a presidential preference survey by Public Policy Polling.  If...
August 03, 2016
In the gospels are several versions of Jesus’ wedding banquet story: in one the guests...

July 2016

July 30, 2016
The DNC was a star-studded event. Broadway stars. movie stars, music stars, political stars, retired...
July 23, 2016
Tell my brother to gimme my share of the money, said the man in the...
July 21, 2016
Well, we all knew Hillary was going to be portrayed as Cruella de Vil at...
July 19, 2016
Persistence ranks pretty high in Jesus’ list of values. He talks about it a lot....
July 17, 2016
A century ago, our country was ramping up for WWI. The goal: to save the...
July 10, 2016
If any can show us the courage it takes to choose the good portion –...
July 01, 2016
Law. In the Bible law exists in Covenant and Codes. These originated in different times...

June 2016

June 26, 2016
Abraham's Three Divine Guests, 551 AD. Basilica di S. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. Vanderbilt Divinity School...
June 22, 2016
Jesus does not equivocate about the cost of becoming a disciple. Neither is the Way...
June 18, 2016
There’s so much at work in the story of this last week and the Orlando...
June 11, 2016
The young madman in Geresea pours out torrents of raging suspicion. Loudly and ceaselessly, he...
June 09, 2016
The media shocker of the moment is Brock Turner, a 20 year old white Ohioan...
June 05, 2016
Women in priestly robes. Women in clerical collars. Women in collars opening local meetings with...
June 04, 2016
He fought 64 bouts in his career, and was only knocked down in one of...

May 2016

May 28, 2016
Image: Arlington National Cemetery graves, marked with flags for Memorial Day. Wikipedia image. It’s Memorial...
May 28, 2016
We value honesty. Transparent lives. People who are open books. We ache to find these...
May 21, 2016
Memory. It is a main work of faith, of all faiths really, to remember. To...
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