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August 2026

August 20, 2026

A Religious Socialist Answer to Dennis McIntyre

I read Dennis McIntyre's recent Patheos article The Rise of DSA And America's Socialist Movement....

July 2025

July 13, 2025

Hiding in Sentiment

"And who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10: 29b NRSVUE) Where are we hiding? What are...

April 2025

April 02, 2025

Causing Chaos While Calling It Order

Clarence the Angel (Second Class) tells George Bailey that one man's action can have ripple...

September 2023

September 12, 2023

Jesus Came To Church

Jesus showed up just after I began my sermon Sunday morning. He was in the...

May 2023

May 25, 2023

Christian Government: A Fallacy

Aristotle claimed the best form of government is a monarchy while the worst is tyranny....

September 2022

September 22, 2022

Liberation, Solidarity, And Ecology in the Capitalocene

Progressive Christians know there is not one liberation theology. United Methodist theologian Joerg Rieger has...

September 12, 2022

Live And Let Die: Thoughts About The Non-Religious Right

Churches are declining in numbers. A non-religious conservatism is on the rise. More people are...

March 2022

March 14, 2022

War For Your Entertainment

"Of course, war is entertaining" - Screwtape Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not entertainment for...

March 10, 2022

The Revolution Begins May 1st

Forgive me for approaching what many take as serious business lightly. What some people believe...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

Hell Is A Gated Community

"And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my...

February 09, 2022

Did Matthew Change The Beatitudes?

I swallowed nervously knowing what my next question would produce. We were studying Luke's version...

October 2021

October 11, 2021

The Essential Workers Revolt

The first sign of revolt was at the garden center. I stood in a long...

September 2021

September 20, 2021

Tolerance and Compassion Fatigue

I am so over it. My tolerance has hit a big, ugly wall longer than...

June 2021

June 17, 2021

Listening To Working Class Folks

The Working Class has spoken. They spoke in 2016 and 2020. But are we listening?...

June 03, 2021

Addiction, Grace, And 3 Warnings

Addiction is fashionable in churches. Congregations host Recovery meetings, have Celebrate Recovery ministries, and, because...

June 01, 2021

3 Attitudes Are Killing American Churches

The churches are not coming apart and failing because of beliefs. It is happening because...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

The River To The Sea

The Sea of Galilee is a wide lake of the Jordan river. The Jordan flows...

May 10, 2021

Fear And Social Meanness

The paradox of Fear and Social Meanness among Christians in the "Bible Belt" is frustrating...

May 03, 2021

Two Righteous Evils

Serious Christians know there are some troubling passages in our Bible. Some of the righteous...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

Decolonizing White Privileged Christianity

Miguel A. De La Torre discussed his new book on Crackers and Grape Juice a...

March 15, 2021

Saint Patrick And His Love Letter

Saint Patrick is a symbol of Irish nationalism. He and the Harp of Tara are...

March 11, 2021

Healing, Self-Righteousness, and Medicaid Expansion

Christians opposing healing for other people on moral grounds sounds righteous. Should Christians receive the...

January 2021

January 28, 2021

Attacking the Houseless

Houseless peoples camps are being raided. And it is not right to do it. Police...

January 25, 2021

Biblically Illiterate Bible Quoting

Nothing gets my dander up like biblically illiterate bible quotations. Social media makes this worse....

January 21, 2021

Business As Usual And The New President

Americans seem to loathe the phrase "business as usual." I am not sure which word...

January 14, 2021

How Mainline Churches Closed Themselves

The Mainline Protestant church is dying. Church leaders have known this for decades. We developed...

December 2020

December 28, 2020

Holy Innocents Not Holy Innocence

Today we observe the massacre of the Holy Innocents. The story is about mass murder....

April 2020

April 06, 2020

Time To Burn It Down

Holy Week is the time we remember all of the events of the last week...