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November 2024

November 27, 2024
This article is a response to an experience I had last week, an experience that...
November 12, 2024
Today, November 12, 2024, we have learned that Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the...
November 06, 2024
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. (Proverbs...

October 2024

October 29, 2024
Does a Big-Box Retail Empire Have the Right to Shape Theology? The Green family of...
October 21, 2024
"Christian nationalism" is an oxymoron and an excuse for fascists to claim that they are...
October 14, 2024
I live in Central Florida in a bedroom community serving a major metropolitan area.  I...
October 08, 2024
Freemasonry is not a single organization. Freemasonry is not a religion, although it looks a...
October 04, 2024
Likely, you have heard of Freemasonry or Masonry, as it is often called.  You might...
October 02, 2024
If you read the Bible daily, or weekly, or once a year or twice in...

September 2024

September 25, 2024
There is an insidious cancer seeping quietly into everyday American life.  It is the constant...
September 19, 2024
You love your children. You raised them in church.  You model the behavior you expect....
September 06, 2024
In the U.S., we wave the flag, sing the anthem, threaten anyone who disagrees with...

August 2024

August 31, 2024
Religion is harming public schools in the U.S.  In spite of the screaming of "groomers"...
August 25, 2024
People read the Bible for many different reasons.  Let us explore some of those reasons...
August 16, 2024
The Holy Bible presents the reader with a single, definable, consistent deity who speaks with...
August 03, 2024
2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite...

July 2024

July 22, 2024
Anyone who pays any attention at all has noticed that church attendance in America has...
July 10, 2024
Of all the noise in American politics and journalism, one of the loudest arguments is...
July 08, 2024
Not everyone approaches the Bible in the same way.  The way that a reader plunges...
July 06, 2024
Some Christians, even today, some 200 years after it was written, believe that the Book...

June 2024

June 26, 2024
Frequently, I hear people say that they know something to be true when they actually...
June 16, 2024
Does Shane MacGowan reveal his Christianity in his lyrics? When the news came last November...
June 08, 2024
In our last post, we discussed several reasons why reading the Bible has value for...
June 06, 2024
People have found many reasons to read the Bible. Here, we will explore some of...

May 2024

May 28, 2024
Some Christians (and I am betting almost no Jews) take the entire Bible literally and...

April 2024

April 28, 2024
Beltane?  What's that? Beltane is celebrated as the midpoint between the Spring Equinox and the...
April 23, 2024
In April in the year 1915, 56,000 English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Australian and New Zealand...
April 14, 2024
Do you believe there are false prophets in the United States today?  If you do,...
April 07, 2024
You want to read the Bible but you're not sure how to get started.  Without...
April 01, 2024
It is good to start every day with prayer when the day is fresh and...
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