Please leave me and mine out of your issues. Unless, of course, we belong there.
Wesley, our cat, has been a bit under the weather lately. Actually, I think Rachel has figured out that Wesley and I have about the same allergies.
We took Wesley to the Vet’s office last Friday, to get direction on dealing with [...]
I have trouble dealing with ethnicity. It isn’t that I have trouble dealing with people who have an ethnicity. No, my problem, like that of very many of us, is that Anglo-Americans have generally grown up without any ethnicity. In fact, I would argue that the American Myth is that the only identity or ethnicity [...]
I’m reading Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint’s Come on People: on the path from Victims to Victors. On p. 32 they write:
One way slaves survived such brutal conditions was to turn the Christianity they had learned into a liberation theology. The stories of the Hebrew slaves became their own. Even as slave owners used the [...]
“I hope I won’t go to hell for that,” said the teenager.
It broke my heart to hear this young woman who has grown up in the church, who is a leader and who, in all she says and does seems to “get it” still wonders in her heart if she will end up in hell.
Grace.
Jesus [...]
It seems common in circles I move in these days for people/leaders/teachers to say things like “We don’t have answers, we just want to encourage questions.”
I respectfully disagree.
Not in the way I disagreed in my fundamentalist days (which was often not respectful), but I must disagree nonetheless.
I can’t won’t, and shouldn’t promise young people, or [...]
What is heaven like?We all have our ideas. What are yours?
Sometimes I speak before I think. Sometimes this happens when I’m preaching. Ordinarily I’ve got a pretty strict plan for my message, but it is not unusual for me to let something sneak in at the last minute.
A couple of Sundays ago I opened my [...]
This is from a letter to the editor in today’s Waco Tribune-Herald. I am NOT making this up.
All of my friends believe in God, and I believe that, as a country, we need to get back to living by the Ten Commandments, loving one another, and having respect for all.
This is one of those times [...]
In case you can’t read the words in the image next to this, it says:
Men use duct tape to fix all kinds of things. God uses His Son. ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son.’ John 3:16
While I am tempted to call this Jesus Junk and move on, [...]
I heard the story a few weeks back that the Pentagon’s intelligence briefings for the White House were going to cease carrying quotes from the Bible. But I hadn’t seent these:
Thanks, GQ, for sharing them.
I’m pretty sure these aren’t the kind of things Jesus had in mind.
Thank you, Defense Department, for stopping this abominable [...]
An article in The Economist from March 21-27 reports that religious people are more afraid of death than their non-religious counterparts.
HOW do a person’s religious beliefs influence his attitude to terminal illness? The answer is surprising. You might expect the religious to accept death as God’s will and, while not hurrying towards it, not to [...]
