To be made in the image of God

Last updated on: January 22, 2016 at 12:42 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

God in the world

Last updated on: January 16, 2016 at 7:07 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

Some Christians believe God in the world is only found here: Others see God in the world here: God is so much more. God is this: http://orig12.deviantart.net/02ed/f/2012/183/c/a/iss_orbital_gif_by_wmwconnors-d55q5vo.gif God is here. God is as delicate as butterfly wings. God is as soft and as strong as the water that wears away stone. God is more than political rallies and platitudes. God is more than Bible verses and bigotry. God is more than what you think or believe or can even imagine.... Read more

We are stardust

Last updated on: January 13, 2016 at 4:20 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

Through compassion

Last updated on: January 9, 2016 at 1:17 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

We are all connected.

Last updated on: January 4, 2016 at 9:56 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

Too many Christians do Christmas wrong

Last updated on: January 2, 2016 at 9:14 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

If you’re a Christian who thinks the Christmas season ended on Dec. 25, then you’re already a casualty of the ‘war on Christmas,’ and you don’t even know it. In the United States, the annual commercial assault on Christmas begins on Thanksgiving, when some Christians line up in the middle of the night for special sales that force others to work on a national holiday. In the bigger picture, the modern attack on Christmas, and Christianity, has been ongoing in... Read more

A Roman god and a new year

Last updated on: January 1, 2016 at 12:15 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

The Roman god Janus was the god of gates, halls, doors, and doorways. The god of beginnings and endings. Usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions, Janus frequently symbolized change and transitions, such as the progression of past to future, of one condition to another, of one vision to another. He was also known as the figure representing time because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other. This... Read more

Watch Night

Last updated on: December 31, 2015 at 2:05 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

I learned of Watch Nigh” at my historically black seminary (one of the many, many blessings I received by attending the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University). In the African American community, Watch Night services on News Year’s Eve commemorate the evening of Dec. 31, 1862, as blacks looked to Jan. 1, 1863, and the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation. The idea of a New Year’s Eve service actually is much older than Freedom’s Eve, and... Read more

When you are joyful,

Last updated on: December 28, 2015 at 9:03 am By Jim Meisner Jr.

Have I forgotten anyone?

Last updated on: December 23, 2015 at 11:27 pm By Jim Meisner Jr.

By Hugh Haynie, first published in the Louisville Courier-Journal on Dec. 24, 1961. Read more