Riddle: When do wealthy, powerful, white men think they are victims? Answer: When they encounter the limits of their power, more precisely, when they are feeling powerless. Of course, that is the … [Read more...]
The Healing of a Cool Rain on a Dark Morning
Six-thirty in the morning is dark again, an envelope of stillness as dog and I walk beneath the canopy of trees along the street. No other human or canine life was visible this morning, suppressed … [Read more...]
The Sermon in 500 Words for the General Public (Rather than Sunday’s Version)
I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived of the pleasures of hoeing; there is no knowing how many souls have been formed by this simple exercise… “Hoeing” by John Updike I … [Read more...]
Just a little ice cream walk
On Labor Day weekend, with visitors from Maine staying with us, we made our way down to the Farmer’s Market and foraged for breakfast while also shopping for dinner. With Finger Lakes roastery coffee … [Read more...]
Baggage
I once served a church located on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. I don’t know if it is still true, but when I was there in the 1990’s there were a lot of homeless … [Read more...]
Quieting the Volcano
Honestly, what I want to write about is the travesty going on in the Senate. I mean the naked abuse of power by Republicans that began when they used their majority to refuse the legitimate Supreme … [Read more...]
Aristotle, Wittgenstein, and Rudy
“Truth isn’t truth” is just too ripe and juicy not to write about this week. Especially because, surprisingly, I might agree with Rudy Giuliani. Only those in the midst of a personal news blackout … [Read more...]
Religion and Mirrors
On the surface this hardly seems like something we need to be talking about all over again, but then millions of people have skin in the game – actual flesh and blood. A lot of people think about … [Read more...]
Poetry
Billy Collins, former United States Poet Laureate, has a humorous poem (“Introduction to Poetry”) that I read as an explanation for why poetry is repugnant to so many people: …But all they want to … [Read more...]
Tending to National Character
An unusual email arrived following upon a recent “friending” through the increasingly oldster Facebook network. An eighty-something retired minister I knew decades ago, contacted me along with several … [Read more...]
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