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April 2021

April 19, 2021
The national motto of the US should be "shooting problems away." It is our practice...
April 14, 2021
Truthfulness is goodness. Unless, one is engaged in a social situation. How many times do...
April 12, 2021
"People are tired of the hypocrisy of the church." I hear this said a lot....

March 2021

March 31, 2021
I adopted the practice of observing Lent as an adult.  I had some unlearning to...
March 29, 2021
"And who is my neighbor?" We are familiar with the scribe's question to Jesus. It...
March 26, 2021
Is being inclusive a virtue? If so what does excluding other people mean? Is it...
March 22, 2021
I gave my sermon for the final Sunday in Lent yesterday. I describe how life...
March 18, 2021
Miguel A. De La Torre discussed his new book on Crackers and Grape Juice a...
March 15, 2021
Saint Patrick is a symbol of Irish nationalism. He and the Harp of Tara are...
March 11, 2021
Christians opposing healing for other people on moral grounds sounds righteous. Should Christians receive the...
March 08, 2021
Tolstoy's Letter to a Hindu, which I read again this week, is a homily on the Perennial...
March 04, 2021
I am the idiot who doesn't know what I am talking about. This is how...
March 01, 2021
Voltaire said, the perfect is the enemy of the good. I add, the zealot is...

February 2021

February 25, 2021
I have spent the last thirty years listening to Christian victimhood. And I am tired...
February 22, 2021
People have been saying a lot about accountability. My years of church work and community...
February 18, 2021
Addicts are surprised to learn that recovery requires spirituality. Recovery does not require adopting a...
February 15, 2021
Nothing illustrates the consumerist model of Christianity than the Worship Wars. A few decades ago,...
February 11, 2021
"When we were kids," a church member said, "we pledged allegiance to the Bible and...
February 08, 2021
The instructions were simple. "Google Jesus," it said. In the South we are used to...
February 04, 2021
Resentment is the enemy. It is borne of anger. The anger may be justified or...
February 01, 2021
"The Lord your God will raise up for a prophet like me...I will put my...

January 2021

January 28, 2021
Houseless peoples camps are being raided. And it is not right to do it. Police...
January 25, 2021
Nothing gets my dander up like biblically illiterate bible quotations. Social media makes this worse....
January 21, 2021
Americans seem to loathe the phrase "business as usual." I am not sure which word...
January 17, 2021
I just watched The Social Dilemma. The documentary on Netflix that explains how social media operate. And now...
January 14, 2021
The Mainline Protestant church is dying. Church leaders have known this for decades. We developed...
January 11, 2021
A sermons series I once preached was called The Marks of Cain. The marks I...
January 07, 2021
I am angry. It is anger borne out of frustration. I know the people who...
January 04, 2021
Solomon says it well. "Do not answer fools according to their folly, or you will...

December 2020

December 30, 2020
The new Disney film Soul is a nice way to spend time. The Jazz-themed animated Pixar...
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