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January 2018

January 09, 2018
In my past role as "mystery worshipper" for a newspaper column, I am offering a...

December 2017

December 29, 2017
Little things make the big things: what little things that make big things could we...
December 20, 2017
Below is my, admittedly limited, take on the repercussions of the tax bill. Keep in...
December 20, 2017
To say that I did not have the institutional support that I needed to keep...
December 18, 2017
Mary reveals that the entrance of the Savior into the world is a subversive act...
December 16, 2017
Yes, it is with a great sense of entitlement that Mein Führer Donald Trump has...
December 13, 2017
I was chatting with a friend of mine early today and asked why women so...
December 06, 2017
Yes, we are morally diminished.  That is exactly what has happened. We are morally diminished...
December 04, 2017
The marriage of religion and politics, long in the making, has possibly corrupted beyond redemption...
December 03, 2017
But it is at its worst when the Santa/God confusion turns a holy God into...

November 2017

November 27, 2017
Sex and money: the major players in any corrupt decision-making process.  The GOP, now publically...
November 15, 2017
Eat, pray and shop. Open your homes AND prepare your hearts. You can do all...
November 14, 2017
God wanted Trump to expose the dark, decayed underbelly of Evangelicalism so real cleansing and...
November 10, 2017
Many have reacted negatively to the equation of Joseph and Mary with Roy Moore and...
November 07, 2017
Our society idolizes the angry, white male. We heap praise on him, make TV shows...
November 03, 2017
And I still think that without an actual apology, a move to sacred customer service,...
November 02, 2017
If Donald Trump had been an honorable man, he would have been exactly what the...
November 01, 2017
There's a big difference between sick and evil. Time to stop conflating the two and...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
Now, the group is not called The Church of the Holy Bunionectomy. But that is...
October 30, 2017
Seven hundred and ninety-six bodies, from newborn to three years old, killed because the religious...
October 10, 2017
In my opinion, it is not Facebook, which does have room for somewhat reasoned dialogue,...
October 08, 2017
What is it about us fecund beings and tiny humans that encourages such disdain, dislike,...
October 04, 2017
Yes, indeed, we have met the enemy, and the enemy is us. If only he...

September 2017

September 21, 2017
I'm afraid of being found permanently unfit and so non-productive as to have no value....
September 18, 2017
Never forget, parents and caregivers set the model for how people will perceive God later...

August 2017

August 30, 2017
I finally figured it out: Nashville Statement signers do not follow Jesus. They follow Paul, a...
August 27, 2017
With the horrific damage just starting to unfold from Hurricane Harvey, many people will set...
August 19, 2017
Do not buy into the lie that the Confederacy was about State's Rights. Not true....
August 16, 2017
Correction: I included James McDonald as a member of this Advisory Council. I was wrong:...
August 15, 2017
I am a recipient of white privilege. I know it. Frankly, I'm more than a...
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