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April 2017

April 15, 2017

"President Carter, am I a Christian?"

I love President Carter. I've written about him here: President Carter and here: The...

April 12, 2017

April 12, 1963

Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the first faces of the Black Lives Matter...

April 06, 2017

Spiritual refugees

Most of us are refugees in someway. Many are emotional or spiritual refugees, as distant...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

God's power in weakness

March 30, 2017

The Jesus you follow

March 25, 2017

Family reunion

Note: This isn't the sort of thing I usually write on this site. But, here...

March 16, 2017

Resident Aliens

I met Will Willlimon recently. (His preaching technique was exactly what I was taught in...

March 07, 2017

Middle class Messiah

Recently I wrote: The Bible is clear. Jesus is with the losers, not the leaders....

March 02, 2017

Shacking up

The Shack, the book and movie, is another stark example of the differences among modern...

March 01, 2017

A Prayer for Ash Wednesday

February 2017

February 28, 2017

February 23, 2017

February 14, 2017

Love

The message of Jesus is simple: Love God. Love others. That’s it. Everything else is...

February 10, 2017

Baptist women in ministry

Despite the efforts of Southern Baptists and other fundamentalists to rewrite history and erase ordained...

February 08, 2017

Anne Frank

People are suffering. Seeking freedom and the American Dream. Searching for safety and security. Many...

February 04, 2017

Why Christians should oppose banning anyone

Because the Bible says discriminating is wrong. Scripture says favoritism is wrong. For example: "My...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

What’s better than 100 percent success?

Immigration officials have been 100 percent successful in stopping terrorists from entering the U.S. from...

January 28, 2017

"What you do for the least of these, you do for me."

On the day the world recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the White House issued...

January 27, 2017

A racist message in plain sight

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Trump White House released a statement that made invisible...

January 27, 2017

A pep talk

A pep talk from Kid President. Worth watching, remembering, and watching again.

January 24, 2017

We are ALL loved

I attended a charming Christmas pageant a few weeks before Christmas. The small church in...

January 22, 2017

Women's march 2017

January 21, 2017

Inauguration Day 2017

Some Conservative Christians hated President Obama so much, that after eight years they've completely divorced...

January 15, 2017

Character as clear as black and white

The president-elect of the United States kicked-off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend by...

January 12, 2017

Christians and abortion

This is really good. I tried to explain previously that Protestants didn't always oppose abortion...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

Jesus was a refugee

December 23, 2016

A Savior in A Charlie Brown Christmas

December 18, 2016

You doubtless will make some mistakes

December 16, 2016

Turning the other cheek at Christmas

December 12, 2016

Let Jesus in