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February 2014

February 04, 2014

Sermon on the Mount

The Gospel lesson on Sunday looked at the opening verses of the “Sermon on the...

February 03, 2014

Founding Mothers

It is amusing how rightwing pundits and politicians frequently refer to the “founding fathers.” Two...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

The Underground Church

In his book The Underground Church, my colleague in the United Church of Christ, Robin...

January 30, 2014

“So, Do You Really Think Jesus was a Capitalist?”

My friend the late Peter Gomes used to love to describe a famous New Yorker...

January 29, 2014

The Beatitudes

The Gospel lesson for Sunday is the Beatitudes. These are some of the favorite verses...

January 28, 2014

Jesus Said to the Blind Man, “I’m Sorry But You Aren’t a Westerner.”

Some days it just doesn’t pay to read the paper or the Internet. Almost every...

January 24, 2014

Breaking Barriers

Roger Bannister was an Olympic athlete at a time when track and field experts were...

January 23, 2014

Thought for the day

Every person, just like every church, needs hope and a vision for the future. What...

January 22, 2014

Children of God, the World is Changing Fast

After spending five days with the wonderful people of the United Church of Canada, it...

January 15, 2014

Thought for the day

You cannot teach what you have not learned, and you cannot lead where you have...

January 13, 2014

A River Runs Through It

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was...

January 09, 2014

20 Things the Rich Do Every Day

At The Center for Progressive Renewal, we have been pondering how we might create a...

January 08, 2014

Life is Not the Same as God

I read an interesting blog post last week entitled “Confronting the lie: God won’t give...

January 06, 2014

Happy Epiphany

Happy Epiphany, or 12th Day of Christmas, or Day of the Kings or …. Well,...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Thought for the Day: December 31, 2013

As the New Year approaches, let us step outside of the box and reimagine what...

December 19, 2013

Christmas is About…

One of my favorite books is How the Grinch Stole Christmas. () The moral of...

December 17, 2013

Force Fed Consumerism

Several times recently I have been on planes with video screens embedded in the seatback...

December 13, 2013

Thought for the day

Let us join Spirit in imagining our worlds, inner and outer, present and future, into...

December 12, 2013

Thought for the day

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

December 11, 2013

Wake Up and Rise Up Before It Is Too Late

Last week Suzanne Goldenberg of “The Guardian” tried to sound an alarm. She wrote: Conservative...

December 10, 2013

Sprigs of Green

The Hebrew lesson on Sunday was that great passage from Isaiah that predicts that the...

December 09, 2013

Nelson Mandela

Yesterday, in churches around the world, the faithful remembered Nelson Mandela. For our modern lesson...

December 06, 2013

Cheap Food

There is a young man in my church who spent most of his life growing...

December 04, 2013

Word in Action

Expect the unexpected. Faithful living means that your expanded awareness of God includes the ability...

December 02, 2013

In Honor of World AIDS Day

Yesterday was World AIDS Day. In honor of that, I thought I’d share what I...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Expensive Propositions

I wonder if it is merely a coincidence that there are almost exactly the same...

November 26, 2013

Welfare Has Become a Four-Letter Word

My sermon on Sunday focused on the passage in Jeremiah in which he addressed the...

November 25, 2013

Thought for the day

What does it mean to determine a better existence? When we know better we can...

November 22, 2013

Affordable Care

Okay, I’m really angry about the news coverage about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Yes,...

November 20, 2013

Old Dogs, New Tricks

Lately I’ve been learning a lot about something I thought I already knew a lot...