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November 2019

November 28, 2019

How To Be a Good Person

I'm over at Stand Firm today, as I'm going to try to be a couple...

November 19, 2019

When Everyone Is Solomon

I’ve only been to Chick-fil-A once in my life, or maybe twice, and wasn’t sure...

November 14, 2019

It Is A Terrible Choice

Yesterday I ran into this article by Caitlin Flanagan over at the Atlantic. She always...

October 2019

October 08, 2019

Kanye West , Big Eva, and the Iceberg of Christianity

Have been resisting jumping on the Kanye West train for at least a week, but...

October 01, 2019

Stop Oppressing Me

Well, I had something important on my mind today (Kanye West) but that was swiftly...

September 2019

September 27, 2019

7 We Can’t Do Better Takes

I mean, we think we can, but we can't because we're sinners. So that's too...

September 26, 2019

And God Saw That It Was Good But I Was Too Busy To Pay Attention

I’ve been pushing myself along at an insane pace the last month...well, maybe six weeks,...

September 17, 2019

Caught Between June and Janet: There Has To Be A Better Way

Well, after an initially underwhelming impression of The Good Place, I must say that I...

September 11, 2019

Remembering 9/11

I woke up to see Remember 9/11 trending on Twitter and was sure I had...

September 10, 2019

Christianity Is Not Just Wrong, It Is Also Dangerous…Apparently

Here is something depressing to mull over for the week. A psychologist of one kind...

August 2019

August 09, 2019

7 Takes In A Tragic Time

Kelly isn’t doing links today, but I thought I’d have a whack at them, since...

June 2019

June 04, 2019

What Is Your Crazy Dream?

Yesterday a child asked me how many hours are in a year, and because school...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Odds and Ends: RHE, Some Podcasts, An Article, A Book or Two

I’m going to take the opportunity of having written something somewhere else (see below), to...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

Twitter Impactful Christianity

A few weeks before Easter the local Unitarian church—who always do up the best church...

April 17, 2019

In Which Google Anxiously Protects Me From Jesus

[Jesus, irritated after spending 10 minutes on google looking for the existence of himself.] It’s...

April 14, 2019

Choosing Between Jesus and Kim Kardashian on Palm Sunday

I used to watch the Kardashians, back in the bad old days when we consumed...

April 02, 2019

Please Don’t Make Me Be Body-Positive

I finally finished watching Shtisel on Netflix. Took me forever but persistence and hard work...

February 2019

February 14, 2019

A Valentine Gift Buying Guide For The Rest Of Us

So I didn’t get to the goop (just to remind you, A Modern Lifestyle Brand)...

February 12, 2019

Cliches on Tuesday

Looks like we have another mini-snowpocalypse. I know this because it is actually snowing and...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

When They Required A Song

I was briefly on the Ride Home with John and Kathy (40 min. mark) last...

January 29, 2019

Try Opening Your Eyes

Is it already morning? Goodness, that came quickly. Did not intend to fall off the...

December 2018

December 30, 2018

Come to Church and See a Miracle

In an over-sugared haze I finally read that muddled piece in the Guardian about how...

December 18, 2018

Cute Is Not The Word You Were Looking For

I’ve been saving up this charmingly terrible goop gem for a few days. I thought...

December 09, 2018

Grief and Hope

This is a beautiful and tragic piece that made the rounds a week or two...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

What You Should Do When You Don’t Like The Christmas Music

Have valiantly swallowed down my annoyance at hearing Christmas music in every store I have...

October 2018

October 07, 2018

Meditation Upon the Closing of a Neighborhood Church

The Methodist Church near the Old Good Shepherd (Now Islamic Awareness Center) recently closed. I...

October 03, 2018

Who Should I Believe?

[Jesus surprised at America’s attempt to grow a soul.] A mean person sent me this...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

Girl Go To Church

The best thing about the modern world is that you don’t have to read books...

September 04, 2018

Meditation Upon the Building of a Brand

File this away under Extremely Depressing. It caught my eye because of the very relevant,...

September 02, 2018

Abortion is Not Self-Care

Perhaps many of you who wander around the highways and byways of social media came...