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June 2022

June 30, 2022
Fascism is a death cult. It does not matter what form or name it takes....
June 27, 2022
How did we ever get to this point? What pillars did we build? The churches...
June 25, 2022
The evangelicals/fundamentalists lost by winning. They won a Supreme Court that overturned their great target...
June 20, 2022
Violence is authoritarian. And authoritarianism is violence. This is demonstrated throughout history. Church can be...
June 16, 2022
I am not comfortable with the term "prayer warrior." Never have been. Recalling Frank Perretti's...
June 13, 2022
Para-Church organizations regularly abuse the Bible. It is easy to do when one has an...
June 09, 2022
Cool and warm are not often used the same way.  Yet, a person may be...
June 06, 2022
Racism is not mentioned in the Bible. Yet, we call it sin. What makes it...
June 02, 2022
Easter season ends with Pentecost. Often it is lost in the shuffle in church worship...

May 2022

May 31, 2022
Am I required to pray for my enemies? Can I pray they get judged, condemned,...
May 25, 2022
Another mass school shooting has happened. The reported numbers are 19 children and 2 adults...
May 24, 2022
Few things are more gratifying to a pastor or teacher as a person saying, "I...
May 19, 2022
The root of all true heresies is to assume "we" are right, true, and good...
May 17, 2022
I am staying with The United Methodist Church. There are good reasons to remain. The...
May 12, 2022
Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners. Everyone acknowledges this part of the story. He...
May 10, 2022
Forward United is a gathering of traditionalist, centrist, and progressive United Methodists in my Annual...
May 06, 2022
A friend told me she is avoiding church this week. She is making a choice...
May 03, 2022
Experience teaches me that nothing stops a person who wants a divorce. Begging a person...

April 2022

April 28, 2022
I watched a Senator the other day read from a list of weapons the US...
April 25, 2022
Loving wisdom is the primary motivation in philosophical talks. A recent discussion with an evangelical...
April 21, 2022
Experience is a great teacher. This quality has come under scrutiny among many conservative Wesleyans....
April 18, 2022
It happened yesterday. I did not see it. But some pastor or church somewhere crucified...
April 16, 2022
What was Jesus doing on Holy Saturday? Was he really in or spiritually out of...
April 11, 2022
The guide said it over and over again. "Just to give you an idea." An...
April 07, 2022
The controversy over the so-called "Bethany gospel" is not going away anytime soon. I decided...
April 04, 2022
Recent reports of mass graves of civilian casualties once again raise the ire of observers....

March 2022

March 31, 2022
Psychiatry no longer says I am an alcoholic. The modern term is "alcohol abuse disorder."...
March 28, 2022
Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock is the event of the present media cycle. It...
March 24, 2022
I once claimed the only thing you would see me running for is the state...
March 21, 2022
Denying ourselves some simple pleasures for forty day is not easy. Pleasures are important to...
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