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December 2017

December 16, 2017

The Words of Angels

Nothing Is Impossible with God Angels. They appear throughout biblical stories, always unannounced, and always...

December 10, 2017

The Voice in the Wilderness

Bear's Ears and Biblical Wildness Becoming Children of God Wilderness. An uncultivated, uninhabited, inhospitable region,...

December 07, 2017

No More Lying About Mary

(Reposting from December 2015) It’s Advent, and the same old lies about Mary are slipping...

December 06, 2017

No More Lying About Mary

A Careful Reading of the Biblical Texts  DECEMBER 3, 2015 BY NANCY ROCKWELL It’s Advent, and...

December 03, 2017

The Angel in Camel Skin

The Advent Ice Bucket Challenge Sobering News from the Wilderness Confession. It’s a ghastly business...

December 02, 2017

Sexual Predation and the Freedom to Love

The Answer is Not a Return to the Old Narrowmindedness about Sex It isn’t as...

November 2017

November 26, 2017

No Longer At Ease in the Old Dispensation

These Times, Are These Advent Times? Where Will the Word Be Found? Keep awake ....

November 19, 2017

Glory and the Desperate Stranger

A Beautiful Kingdom Vision The Banishment of the Unjust The Gospel Year ends now, in...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Luther – Resetting the Christian Compass

We Are All Explorers, and Doctrines Cannot Be Our Guide Sola Fide On November 1,...

October 22, 2017

#MeToo

Entangled Relationships, Confused Desires How a Twitter Hashtag has Opened Up Women’s Humiliation at Work...

October 21, 2017

The White House Press Corps

Digging for Truth in a Field of Lies Learning to Hear the Opposition What ever...

October 15, 2017

Wily Tricks  & Tricky Questions

Presidential Race Baiting Jesus and the Tax Question It’s the land of the free and...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

Down on One Knee and True to the Flag

Jesus Is Kneeling With Them Since when did kneeling become disrespectful?   Once again, the President...

September 23, 2017

The Vietnam War and Jesus’ Parable About Authority

How Do You Decide To Obey, and Whom? I thought I wouldn’t watch Ken Burns...

September 17, 2017

The Howling Over DACA and the Generosity of God

The Kingdom Where Latecomers Are Equal to Those Who Have Been Working All Along Perhaps...

September 02, 2017

Rescuing Houston  – America’s Dunkirk?

The Cajun Navy's Fine Hour In the midst of devastation, as water welled over much...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Land and Flag – Blood and Soil

Are These Values That Unite or Divide? The Charlottesville video is chilling. Young white men,...

August 23, 2017

September’s Deportees

Holding on to an American Life Saturday was Indonesian Independence Day. And a surprisingly large...

August 19, 2017

The President’s Evangelical Clergy Council

A Failure of Moral Courage and of Gospel Understanding Friday evening Rev. A.R. Bernard, an...

August 17, 2017

Confederate Statues: Art or Identity?

Monumental Anger About a month after the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, during the...

August 13, 2017

Your Words Defile You, Jesus Said

Words Said In Charlottesville Pride and Anger: Foundational Sins of the Alt White It is...

August 12, 2017

For Charlottesville

The Insidious Teaching of White Supremacy How It Is Cloaked in a Doctrine of Family...

August 07, 2017

Action and Chaos – America’s Great Loves

Jesus Calms Storms, on Land and Sea But Big Money Is in Conflict and Disorder...

August 02, 2017

Give Me Your Highly Educated, Respectable, English Speakers . . .

The White House Writes Legislation for Immigration Change The White House Press Briefing hit a...

July 2017

July 30, 2017

The Miracle at Dunkirk

Another Feeding of the Five Thousand The must-see movie of the moment is Dunkirk, named...

July 23, 2017

The Kingdom That Boggles Your Mind

Turning Your World Upside Down A pearl you spot in the window of a jewelry...

July 22, 2017

“Class-Cluelessness “

The Unkempt Fields of Weeds and Wheat Andrea Campbell, who teaches political science at MIT,...

July 15, 2017

Weeds Among the Wheat

The American Harvest Approaches A Reflection on Matthew 13: 24-43 We’ve moved so swiftly, in...

July 13, 2017

Autistic Boy Housed for 28 Days in the Emergency Room

While the Senate Cuts Health Care Budget While the powers that be in Washington DC...

July 11, 2017

Ivanka at Dinner in Hamburg, Beatriz at Dinner in LA.

What Trump said in Poland, and What It Means Gautam Mukunda , an American of...

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