May 13, 2021 Next World Design This innovative new site brings together the arts, politics and spirituality focusing on how they relate to each other.
November 3, 2020 Election Day Sermon It’s an old American custom to preach, on election day, a sermon about our responsibilities as citizens before we go to the polls. So…
November 2, 2020 Faith Based Politics? What Would a Faith Based Politics Actually Look Like? Given the invocation of the name of God in political campaigns, especially during a presidential…
October 20, 2020 Abraham Lincoln’s God Abraham Lincoln’s God During a presidential election year, when politicians tend to invoke the name of God for partisan purposes, or “explain” various tragedies…
March 4, 2019 Is God a Republican? Is God a Republican …. or a Democrat? In the US, the name of God is routinely invoked, even in the most partisan contexts,…
May 15, 2018 Split Screen in the Middle East – Finance and Fashion meet Fire and Fury While the wealthy treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, and fashion icon and daughter of the President, Ivanka Trump, were celebrating the new US embassy in Jerusalem, Israeli…
June 19, 2017 Christianity for Grown Ups Adult Christianity “When I was a child, I thought like a child … but as an adult, I put away childish things.” The Apostle…
December 17, 2016 The 400 Pound Hacker from Jersey; Strange but True The press and large segments of the public are curious about the “400 pound man sitting on his bed in Jersey,” whom our president-elect…
February 16, 2016 The New Tan Man We are already missing, John Boehner, who resigned from Congress last fall, after a distinguished career. Whatever readers my think about his record in Congress, everyone marveled at his…