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July 2017

July 07, 2017
Last fall I had the opportunity to give the sermon on stewardship Sunday at my...
July 05, 2017
Donald Trump reminded us last weekend of his history with professional wrestling. Well, Mister President,...
July 03, 2017
Jonathan Rauch: It is our duty as citizens to find ways to live together. I...

June 2017

June 30, 2017
The depths of divine love cannot be exhausted by words, by speech, by texts, by...
June 28, 2017
Liberals are appalled by the provisions of the health care bill that Republicans are trying...
June 26, 2017
What is one to do when what one professes to believe has become, as Macbeth...
June 23, 2017
God often operates according to entirely different rules than those to which we are accustomed....
June 21, 2017
Two microbreweries, an historic synagogue, and powerful words from George Washington. Not bad for a...
June 16, 2017
Wonder Woman believes that the conflict between good and evil is a zero sum game,...
June 14, 2017
Jews and Christians agree on many things. One of the most important things they agree...
June 12, 2017
Anne Lamott defines laughter as Carbonated Holiness. These days, we could use a lot more...
June 10, 2017
It became clear at the Comey hearing and after that Donald Trump's primary concern is...
June 09, 2017
It is my blog custom on my wife Jeanne's birthday to post a reflection on...
June 08, 2017
Breaking from Andy Borowitz: In a surprise announcement, Trump tells the White House press corps...
June 06, 2017
A familiar story from the Jewish scriptures tells us what Donald Trump really needs. And...
June 03, 2017
The voices of spirituality, religion, secularism, materialism, power, and greed often are speaking languages so...
June 02, 2017
From the book of Acts, a story of a person who experienced radical forgiveness, then...

May 2017

May 31, 2017
Frederick Buechner suggests that coincidences may be more than chance occurrences. They may be trying...
May 29, 2017
In an early season of "House of Cards," Frank Underwood observes that "democracy is so...
May 26, 2017
God has given us everything we need to address the problems in front of us....
May 24, 2017
Do dogs go to heaven? Some people turn this into a convoluted theological debate--Do dogs...
May 22, 2017
There are many possible reasons why evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump in record numbers....
May 19, 2017
If I had the opportunity to give the graduating seniors a bit of advice, I...
May 17, 2017
My college's commencement is this coming Sunday; Pentecost is two weeks after that. How might...
May 13, 2017
One of the readings from this Sunday's lectionary is the story of the stoning of...
May 12, 2017
There are billions of human beings who shape their whole reality and might even stake...
May 10, 2017
The most common, and lamest, response to those who have suffered tragedy is to say...
May 08, 2017
During a forum about diversifying our very white campus a few years ago, a colleague...
May 05, 2017
Richard Powers write that there’s joy in a minor key, a deep pleasure to be...
May 03, 2017
A former President once campaigned on the promise of compassionate capitalism. One of the oddest...
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