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May 2025

May 22, 2025

Notes from a sermon: Responding to the Current Culture

Notes from a sermon: Responding to the Current Culture In Matthew 25:40-46, Jesus says, “The...

May 16, 2025

What’s the Christian Response to the Current Culture?

For months, I've been grappling with what should be the Christian Response to the Current...

April 2025

April 16, 2025

Acting in Faith: Being Present in the Moment

I’m halfway through the performance schedule of Dial “M” for Murder at Hanover Tavern, one...

March 2025

March 12, 2025

How do Christians respond to Donald Trump?

How do Christians respond to Donald Trump and his "Christian" supporters? Here are 6...

February 2025

February 07, 2025

Republicans aren’t Christian: They’re Christofascists

Republicans aren’t Christian: They're Christofascists. In a stark example of the extremism of so-call “Christian”...

May 2024

May 21, 2024

How is God Like an Elephant?

Do you know how God is like an Elephant? Sometimes we can see God and...

July 2020

July 02, 2020

Readers of Faith on the Fringe will enjoy this

If you enjoy reading from a progressive Christian perspective, you’ll love Faith, Hope, and Baseball,...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Faith, Hope, and Baseball: A Novel – and a work in progress

Here's a pitch for my novel, Faith, Hope, and Baseball: A Novel: What would you...

February 2018

February 11, 2018

Cultural Christians ~ when Christianity isn't Christianity

A prominent voice in mainstream media is Cultural Christians who care more about the culture...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Who is thankful for you?

If that’s how they talk to each other in public, I thought, I can’t imagine...

July 2016

July 23, 2016

Tim Kaine – A good and faithful servant

While he was Governor of Virginia, I interacted with Tim Kaine on many occasions. Here...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

The world is too much with us

When I shared this on Facebook recently, this was one of the comments: "There were...

June 2015

June 10, 2015

Strange bedfellows

This is awkward. In a June 5 Facebook post, Franklin Graham suggested it’s time to...

May 2015

May 16, 2015

Solomon in all his glory

May 06, 2015

Finding your elephant

Three blindfolded people were led to an elephant. The first person touched the elephant’s ear...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

March 07, 2015

Shadowboxing with God

Are you familiar with Plato’s allegory of the cave? A super simple explanation goes like...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

About faith

How do we know how hungry someone else is? Or how thirsty? How do we...

February 08, 2015

For non-believers – faith on the Field of Dreams

Have you seen the movie Field of Dreams? Ray and his wife and daughter and...