NOTE TO READER: If you happened to listen to or read last Sunday's sermon, this newspaper column may sound familiar. I shrank it down to 500 words (or so), which is my limit for the newspaper, and … [Read more...]
Trust
In between columns about birds and butterflies, I actually think about my role as a columnist. Perhaps it is because I am a preacher by profession and recognize there is a vast difference … [Read more...]
Lakefront Extravaganza
I wasn’t going to do this because I wrote about crows last week. Then I witnessed an osprey extravaganza. Rabia and I had just bid adieu to Olive and Brian, frequent morning pals along the lakefront. … [Read more...]
I Have A Question for Readers
Sometime in the next year I will begin a major overhaul of the subversivepreacher website, which includes a redirection of writing focus. What I know in advance, is that the weekly newspaper column, … [Read more...]
Crows
I love crows. I realize there are reasons not to, but for just a minute hover over these reasons to marvel at them. To judge the relative capacity of a species’s brain, it isn’t how big the gray … [Read more...]
Yelling “Fire!” in a Theater
A Geneva police officer was upset when he thought a city counselor had scrawled unflattering words about police on the sidewalk, in chalk, in front of the Public Safety Building during a public … [Read more...]
A Distorted Lens
People are not red or blue. I wrote about this back in 2016 but it seems even more important now. The FBI was granted a search warrant for a former President’s residence and that legal action is being … [Read more...]
Powerful Summer
My wife and oldest daughter are playing cribbage at the dinning room table with the dog napping in the corner nearby. My youngest daughter is poking away on her laptop while our two grandsons are … [Read more...]
Solipsism
Economists don’t measure costs in the Gross National Product formula. Only growth. Any action, behavior, or labor within any relationship, organization, or community has a corresponding cost to it’s … [Read more...]
19 and 97
I was on vacation and didn’t want to read about Joe Manchin assisting our mass suicide by killing climate change legislation. I didn’t want to read about Russian brutality in Ukraine, nor the systemic … [Read more...]
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