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The Working Class has spoken. They spoke in 2016 and 2020. But are we listening?...

June is the month I consider again the same is question. What paths lead to...

"There was only one (morally) perfect man who ever walked the earth." I was in...

The Pandemic introduced me and other reluctant clergy to Online Worship. We witnessed heroic efforts...

Addiction is fashionable in churches. Congregations host Recovery meetings, have Celebrate Recovery ministries, and, because...

The churches are not coming apart and failing because of beliefs. It is happening because...

Yes. You read that correctly. Disciplining instead of discipling. I had an experience with this...

Delicacy is the quality most feigned by obnoxious people. To claim, "I am offended," gains...

The Sea of Galilee is a wide lake of the Jordan river.  The Jordan flows...

Why use the label "Progressive Christian?" C.S. Lewis argued that putting Christian beliefs alongside any...

There is more evidence of the fragility of the American social fabric. It is the...

The paradox of Fear and Social Meanness among Christians in the "Bible Belt" is frustrating...

Child-like faith is not the same as childish faith. There is a lot of that...

Serious Christians know there are some troubling passages in our Bible. Some of the righteous...

I spend most of my time exploring everything in the realms of the Spirit and...

The recent death of a former church member gives me a new opportunity to reflect....

Green is my favorite color. I am told that red actually suits me better. I...

The national motto of the US should be "shooting problems away." It is our practice...

Truthfulness is goodness. Unless, one is engaged in a social situation. How many times do...

"People are tired of the hypocrisy of the church." I hear this said a lot....

I adopted the practice of observing Lent as an adult.  I had some unlearning to...

"And who is my neighbor?" We are familiar with the scribe's question to Jesus. It...

Is being inclusive a virtue? If so what does excluding other people mean? Is it...

I gave my sermon for the final Sunday in Lent yesterday. I describe how life...

Miguel A. De La Torre discussed his new book on Crackers and Grape Juice a...

Saint Patrick is a symbol of Irish nationalism. He and the Harp of Tara are...

Christians opposing healing for other people on moral grounds sounds righteous. Should Christians receive the...

Tolstoy's Letter to a Hindu, which I read again this week, is a homily on the Perennial...

I am the idiot who doesn't know what I am talking about. This is how...

Voltaire said, the perfect is the enemy of the good. I add, the zealot is...