NOTE: To those who read the sermon last Sunday, this is how a sermon can be translated and downsized to a secular piece for the newspaper. It is usually impossible to be certain about the … [Read more...]
Dirty Laundry
Laundromats have a learning curve when it’s been awhile since using one. The first week I used the normal size washers and the gluttonous beasts swallowed quarter after quarter. When I noticed the big … [Read more...]
The Comfort of Trees
The scenery surrounding where I live has shifted from a gnarly grandmother oak, flanked by two vibrant Japanese maple children, to a basilica of ash and locust trees in their prime – ones that would … [Read more...]
Eradicating a Virus
Most the people I hear from prefer the dog, trees, or poetry of nature columns. I prefer to write those but here we are again: whiteness, maleness, and guns. To see racist paranoia ooze through the … [Read more...]
The Problem in 500 Words
I cannot do this in the 500 words allowed for this column. I doubt I could do it in the much roomier venue of a sermon. So if you want to think about this subject some more, go online to … [Read more...]
A Plea Across the Battle Line
Photograph by Laurie Schaull at Creative Commons I am white, male, and affluent by world standards. Still, I know at least a small stab of the knife that Ilhan Omar must feel, and a goodly share of … [Read more...]
Who’s in Charge?
Most of the time I look down at my dog sitting there with her big wet proboscis nudging my arm to receive attention, and think she hasn’t got a clue. I want her to be able to talk. “Use your words,” … [Read more...]
You do not get to know
Once, as a fairly young man and relatively new to professional ministry, I was called in to be available to a family I did not know going through a sudden horrendous tragedy. In an instant, the lives … [Read more...]
Facts Pointing the Way
Facts are measurable and verifiable. By themselves they do not tell the truth, but by themselves they often point to the truth. Here are some facts – measured, verified, and irrefutable. These are … [Read more...]
Winning with Consensus-building
It may be well-known news at this point, but only one state in the union has a divided legislature. That means in forty-nine states one political party can dictate policy, funding, and programs. That … [Read more...]
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