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July 2017

July 08, 2017

Dr. Ayaz Virji and the People of Dawson, Minnesota

A Story of the One Who Hears and Understands The Washington Post carried a story...

June 2017

June 10, 2017

Harvesting the Lost

Process and Method, Not Currying Favor and Not Begging It’s an odd mixing of metaphors...

June 07, 2017

Free Speech, Hate Speech, Tweet Speech, Truth and Lies

Our Miserable Public Conversation If it is written down, it's called "libel" whereas if it's...

June 05, 2017

Trinity, God’s Embracing Globalism

The One World Vision Within Trinity The tale of the Spirit descending on a crowd...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

It’s Pentecost – and Something Is Not Right

There’s a disconnect between Jesus’ invocations of the Spirit in John’s gospel, and the way...

May 20, 2017

Trump in Saudi Arabia – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Trump’s ‘Largest Arms-sale Deal in US history’ Blocks Relief for Starving Yemenis Donald Trump flew...

May 17, 2017

RIding Up the Heavenly Way

“That they may all be one” – the motto of the United Church of Christ,...

May 13, 2017

The Comey Effect

Donald Trump's Paranoia The shock waves of this week have not yet subsided. One CNN...

May 09, 2017

The Prosperity Gospel and the new GOP American Health Care Act

How Prosperity Values are Redefining America and Christianity CNN’s Jake Tapper, in a recent interview...

May 06, 2017

Mother’s Rooms in the Father’s House

A Mother’s Day Reflection on John 14 It’s with some irony that I read the...

May 05, 2017

Trumpcare and the Gospel of Prosperity

Partying in the Rose Garden as Healthcare for the Poor Dies It’s twenty four hours...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Easter and the Bandit Shepherd

A Look at City of Ghosts and John 10 On Thursday, in New York City,...

April 27, 2017

Walking Easter’s Emmaus Road in Angus MacLachlan’s Film, Abundant Acreage

It’s a well-worn story, the day-long walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus, hours of plodding along...

April 15, 2017

The Skeptic

Buncha malarkey. Snake oil. Quack, quack, quack. Christmas, yes. Easter, no. These are common human...

April 15, 2017

Hell Is Empty-All the Devils Are Here –Part 2

This year my Good Friday observance was in a large theater in Portsmouth, watching, with...

April 13, 2017

Hell Is Empty, All the Devils Are Here

It’s Holy Week, and I had the chance to hear a high school senior tell...

April 09, 2017

Easter’s Alleluias Belong to Jesus’ Kingdom Vision

The Last Days of Jesus, a two-part series PBS is showing now, tells a new...

April 08, 2017

The Rich and Holy Eves

All the awe and magic that the last half of the 20th century allowed, that...

April 07, 2017

Syria’s Children

It was the pictures of Syrian babies, being caressed by their helpless parents as they...

April 02, 2017

Triumph and Defeat

Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem produced a crowd, according to the gospel accounts. The crowd was...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Hillary Unbound

Like Lazarus rising from his silent tomb, Hillary Clinton has emerged from her silence, unbound...

March 25, 2017

Silence and the Word

The raising of Lazarus is a very long story, a chapter length tale. And almost...

March 24, 2017

Native Americans Plead With Us to Keep America Beautiful

Iron Eyes Cody became famous for his "crying Indian" role in the "Keep America Beautiful"...

March 23, 2017

National Health

When the helicopter ambulance landed at Parliament, the injured were all ferried to hospitals in...

March 20, 2017

Small-Hearts, Big Bucks

The story of the blind man who recognized Jesus in the blind town who couldn’t...

March 17, 2017

Trump’s Slander Branding

The President of the United States begins his days by sending out tweets that heap...

March 14, 2017

American Health: GOP Not Planning to Care

The CBO numbers for the shiny new Trump-Ryan Health Care Act are shocking. And immediate...

March 12, 2017

Adultery

The Great Law of Judaism, the Law given to Moses by God on Mt. Sinai,...

March 05, 2017

Nicodemus’ Dilemma and Ours

That remembered night, when Nicodemus came into the dirt poor streets of Jerusalem to hear...

March 04, 2017

How to Clean Up Your Mess: Grace versus Cunning

Lent has opened with a striking pair of examples of what to do, and what...

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