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April 09, 2025

We Are Tired of Being Angry: Letting Go Without Giving Up

We Are Tired of Being Angry I am tired of being angry. Other people are,...

February 2024

February 10, 2024

The Art of Spending a Day

How should a person live each day? There is merit to the adage that each...

December 2023

December 07, 2023

Repenting The Family Business

The prophet Elijah was instructed to find Elisha, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, and...

November 2023

November 13, 2023

The Charlatans Will Always Be With You

Charlatans are usually a minor problem for churches. However, if you fall prey to any,...

September 2023

September 25, 2023

The Gift of Now

"Now or never!" Instead of never we could put "is the time." Better still is...

September 14, 2023

Listening to What We Want to Hear

Like everyone else, I am guilty of listening to what I want to hear. Most...

August 2023

August 14, 2023

Humility And Spider Webs

Humility is overcoming hubris. This time of year spiders remind me of it. In the...

July 2023

July 24, 2023

Conversion And Sobriety

An issue for many addicts choosing recovery is the obvious connection between evangelical ideas of...

July 13, 2023

The Social Media Mask

Practically everyone knows about the church mask. All calls for authenticity in churches are calls...

June 2023

June 01, 2023

The Sun Still Shines

I am happy to announce that my memoir The Sun Still Shines has been published....

May 2023

May 30, 2023

Littleness of Souls

The danger of disaffiliation is not smaller churches, budgets, and a smaller denomination. The danger...

May 08, 2023

Heartbreaking Addiction

A friend died from a heartbreaking addiction. I mean that literally. When I first heard...

February 2023

February 23, 2023

Lent And Life

Lent is another word for Spring. I was surprised to learn this fact. Somehow, I...

February 09, 2023

Divine Rage

Divine Rage? Yes. I am reading Valerie Kaur's memoir See No Stranger with a group of...

January 2023

January 19, 2023

What’s On The Menu?

Food is a spiritual issue. Mark Mylod's The Menu makes that abundantly clear. It is...

January 02, 2023

Things That Test Our Patience

I sometimes am frustrated by inanimate objects. But nothing puts my patience to the test...

November 2022

November 21, 2022

Blessed And Stressed

A billboard carries the message for a local church. It includes the words "too blessed...

October 2022

October 24, 2022

Crickets

Have you ever had the problem with someone not returning emails, texts, or phone calls?...

October 17, 2022

Conformity Is Easier

I ask myself every week. What would St. Paul think about the value the Church...

October 03, 2022

The Gospel of Rights-Scolding

Anthropologist and essayist David Graeber coined the term "rights-scolding" to name the phenomenon of lecturing...

September 2022

September 20, 2022

God Does NOT Have A Plan For Your Life

One of the Calvinist cornerstones of Prosperity Theology is the idea that God has a...

September 15, 2022

Putting The Gardens To Bed

September is when we begin putting our gardens to bed where I live. In the...

August 2022

August 22, 2022

Sharpening The Axe and Other Observations

Toby Veck is one of my heroes. He is a man with observations. Toby is...

August 08, 2022

The Lies Have It

Lies are reality if they are told first. That is until they are proven false....

July 2022

July 28, 2022

When God Disappoints

It may be easier to say their is no god than to believe in one...

July 21, 2022

3 Steps to Reconstructing Faith from Christian Nationalism

A friend confessed she was having a faith crisis because of Christian nationalism. She needs...

July 07, 2022

Are Your Children Hearing Of A Hateful God?

Children are naturally spiritual. When small children awaken in the morning, they want to know...

June 2022

June 16, 2022

The January 6th Prayer Warriors

I am not comfortable with the term "prayer warrior." Never have been. Recalling Frank Perretti's...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Praying for Enemies

Am I required to pray for my enemies? Can I pray they get judged, condemned,...

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Alcoholic Grace

Psychiatry no longer says I am an alcoholic. The modern term is "alcohol abuse disorder."...