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Martin Luther King, Jr: The Voice and the Vision
A full set of resources to help celebrate the civil rights leader. Including photos, prayers, readings, an updated version of one of his best sermons, links to the top King sites on the net and more. The full text of the “Dream” speech with helpful footnotes and the audio file that you can download to […]
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 by blaming both God and the victims, Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address offers a refreshing alternative.
God and the Hurricanes
God and the Hurricanes Does God control the path of hurricanes as they threaten the coast of the US each fall? As one tracks a major storm like Florence, and anticipates a possible landfall on the US coast, the question arises with greater intensity. So how about it? Then, having seen the damage of such storms, […]
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 troops were gunning down Palestinian protestors on the Gaza border. This is a split screen that will fuel the fires of conflict in the Middle East for years to come. Tragic!
The Spirit Diet
Are you seeking a path not only to weight loss, but a more healthy and fulfilling life? The Spirit Diet focuses not on the bad foods that you should avoid (you already know what those are!), but on the wonderful, tasty and delicious foods that tend to improve health and well being at every level, […]
A Text for Today: The 23rd Psalm
In this time between war and peace, between birth and death, between the people we are and those we’d like to become, I can think of no better map for navigating the difficult passages of life than the 23rd Psalm. It marks a passage through time, not just for each of us personally, but for […]
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 Paul. But what would an adult, mature Christianity look like today?
The Essence of Bias
From Walt Hickey of the Five Thirty Eight Newsletter: “When people claim to be Christian and commit violence in the name of Christianity, according to a recent poll, 75 percent Americans say that person wasn’t really Christian. But when people claim to be Muslim and commit violence in the name of Islam, 50 percent of Americans […]
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 keeps mentioning as the possible hacker who tipped the scales in the 2016 Presidential election against Clinton and in favor of Trump. Wonder no more. I refer to him as “Uncle […]
The Golden Door
Will Trump Replace It With a Wall? “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. … Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” ― Emma Lazarus