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May 2026

May 04, 2026
If you’ve never attended Wild Goose Festival, now is your chance. For years, people have...

February 2026

February 22, 2026
I saw Jesse Jackson twice before the day I met him. On Dec. 29, 1984,...

January 2026

January 31, 2026
It appears ICE is coming to my city. The authoritarian Trump Administration is systematically invading...
January 14, 2026
“We don’t want their kind here,” Indigenous people said when Spanish and English speakers invaded...
January 03, 2026
Twelfth Night, Epiphany and the end of the Christmas Season Christmas Day, Dec. 25, is...

December 2025

December 29, 2025
Watch Night. Dec. 31, 1862 found enslaved Americans across the southern United States eagerly awaiting...
December 27, 2025
Was Jesus a refugee? Of course he was. The only reason to deny the clear...
December 21, 2025
Absurdism reaches new heights when Bill and Ted play air guitar in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting...
December 09, 2025
Have you noticed the secret symbol in A Charlie Brown Christmas, the beloved Christmas classic...

October 2025

October 31, 2025
Confirmation bias allows us to see only what we want to see, believe only what...
October 12, 2025
There is danger on the Jericho Road. “Who is your neighbor?” Jesus asks. “Not the...
October 03, 2025
In a violent world, filled with those who accept violence as the cost of living,...

September 2025

September 29, 2025
“Repent,” Jesus says in Matt. 4:17, “for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” But...
September 19, 2025
With the murder of Conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk, Republicans have found their Reichstag Moment. On...
September 13, 2025
When Alabama’s Birmingham was “Bombingham” Sept. 15, 1963 seemed like any other Birmingham Sunday morning...
September 11, 2025
Let me make it plain: Charlie Kirk was a racist bigot. Too many people need...

August 2025

August 30, 2025
"Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; 
And flights of angels sing thee to...
August 20, 2025
Republicans controlling Washington are trying to kill us all. How do we survive the republican...

July 2025

July 30, 2025
“Heroes get remembered,” Babe Ruth told Scotty Smalls in the movie The Sandlot, “but legends...

May 2025

May 22, 2025
Notes from a sermon: Responding to the Current Culture In Matthew 25:40-46, Jesus says, “The...
May 16, 2025
For months, I've been grappling with what should be the Christian Response to the Current...

April 2025

April 16, 2025
I’m halfway through the performance schedule of Dial “M” for Murder at Hanover Tavern, one...

March 2025

March 16, 2025
Churches today can learn 3 lessons from the early Celtic Church. More than 1,500 years...
March 12, 2025
How do Christians respond to Donald Trump and his "Christian" supporters?   Here are 6...

February 2025

February 27, 2025
I quit my church because of Donald Trump and stepped down from the pulpit. After...
February 07, 2025
Republicans aren’t Christian: They're Christofascists. In a stark example of the extremism of so-call “Christian”...

January 2025

January 28, 2025
The sermon for Dec. 29, 2024, is from Ecclesiastes 3:1-13, and is entitled, "For Everything...
January 06, 2025
My new BB gun and the day I nearly shot my eye out. Jan. 6,...
January 02, 2025
On the eight night of Hanukkah 93 years ago, hate, vitriol and racist lies were...

December 2024

December 31, 2024
Watch Night. In the African American community, Watch Night services on New Year’s Eve commemorate...
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