2017-12-06T14:14:10-05:00

Last updated on: December 6, 2017 at 2:14 pm   By

The marriage of religion and politics, long in the making, has possibly corrupted beyond redemption the most visible faces of Christianity. Effectively Christianity is bankrupt. I suspect the church needs to go back underground again, back to the catacombs. According to the latest news report, The President of the United States has, on his Twitter account, fully endorsed credibly accused pedophile and sexual predator Roy Moore for the next Senator from the state of Alabama. The election is December 12. Now,... Read more

2017-12-04T10:36:43-05:00

Last updated on: December 4, 2017 at 10:36 am   By

But it is at its worst when the Santa/God confusion turns a holy God into a punitive, spooky, nosy predator, cruelly punishing anyone who gets out of line. I love the Christmas music. Last week, I attended a Christmas concert and found myself awed at the profound theology expressed in familiar carols. We see the glory of God, sense the humility of the incarnation, feel the fear of the shepherds, hear the voices of the angels, kneel before the Child.... Read more

2017-11-28T14:57:28-05:00

Last updated on: November 28, 2017 at 2:57 pm   By

Sex and money: the major players in any corrupt decision-making process.  The GOP, now publically represented by the child-predation tendencies of Roy Moore, says “yes” to the wrongful use of sexual power for the sake of gaining favor from their deep-pocketed donors. And “Christians” have made this happen. Yet another weigh-in on the Roy Moore controversy. From everything I read, the main argument in Alabama for electing the morally compromised Moore is that he takes a rabidly anti-abortion stance. His... Read more

2017-11-17T08:57:26-05:00

Last updated on: November 17, 2017 at 8:57 am   By

Eat, pray and shop. Open your homes AND prepare your hearts. You can do all of these and I hope you will. Thanksgiving is soon upon us and the Christmas shopping frenzy has begun. Impossible to walk into any retailing environment now and not find Christmas paraphernalia everywhere. The purists are upset. But this is the season that makes or breaks many businesses and the less lucrative Thanksgiving sales can’t get the attention. Economic indices are important Those who create... Read more

2017-11-16T08:02:53-05:00

Last updated on: November 16, 2017 at 8:02 am   By

God wanted Trump to expose the dark, decayed underbelly of Evangelicalism so real cleansing and healing can take place.  Since the beginning of the Trump era, I’ve wondered about the insistence on the part of the Evangelical world that God wanted Trump to be our President. Suddenly, with the whole Roy Moore fiasco surfacing (did you know he was banned from a mall because of his persistent cruising for teenaged girls?), it started to make sense. God wanted Trump, all right, but not... Read more

2017-11-13T21:13:33-05:00

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 9:13 pm   By

Many have reacted negatively to the equation of Joseph and Mary with Roy Moore and the 14-year-old girl Moore (allegedly) sought to seduce. But, to me, with my long history in Evangelicalism, it makes perfect sense. When a religion systematically silences the female voice at the highest levels, and that is part of the core of the Evangelical world, then the female cannot be seen as fully human. It is that simple. No voice, no humanity. Instead, females become fit... Read more

2017-11-08T15:53:07-05:00

Last updated on: November 8, 2017 at 3:53 pm   By

Our society idolizes the angry, white male. We heap praise on him, make TV shows and movies about him, turn him into a mega-star pastor celebrity, elect him to the highest offices in the land. Found at the scene: “hundreds of shell casings and more than fifteen 30-round magazines (source: Wall Street Journal). Besides the bloodied and dead bodies, the white, angry, male shooter left that evidence behind. After all, the gun rights people say, “We have every right to carry... Read more

2017-11-03T14:50:19-05:00

Last updated on: November 3, 2017 at 2:50 pm   By

And I still think that without an actual apology, a move to sacred customer service, we may as well be upfront and say, “We are writing off the next generation of thinking and caring Jesus-followers.” As some of my readers know, I finally decided to get my feet fixed. I had only put this off for over 50 years. The damage was fairly extensive. Surgery one is over. Next Wednesday, I will be given the go-ahead to put on a... Read more

2017-11-06T07:47:01-05:00

Last updated on: November 6, 2017 at 7:47 am   By

If Donald Trump had been an honorable man, he would have been exactly what the country needed. Perhaps the most significant casualty will be Christianity. He would have brought in wise and creative people who would say, “This system is stuck. I’m going to unstick it and help it regain its vitality” and “this regulation was necessary at one time, but it is no longer. I’m going to eliminate it.” If Donald Trump had been an honorable man, his educated... Read more

2017-11-03T07:51:16-05:00

Last updated on: November 3, 2017 at 7:51 am   By

There’s a big difference between sick and evil. Time to stop conflating the two and stop excusing the inexcusable. Yesterday, an evil man drove a truck through a bike path in New York City, colliding with a school bus in the process. Many killed, more injured in a scene of stomach-churning carnage. The President calls the perpetrator “sick and deranged.” Wrong. The perp is evil. And there’s a difference. When we label people sick, we infer that some of their... Read more

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