The Judgment of Sodom – When Disaster Strikes
BY MORF MORFORD: When disaster, human or natural does strike, the theology vultures circle, searching for and scrap of...
What Belongs to Caesar?
BY: MORF MORFORD -- When President Obama comes on TV, radio or even in conversation, their hatred is as palpable...
Let My People Vote!
BY: MORF MORFORD -- Several states have changed their voting laws, just a few months before a presidential election...
A Child Shall Lead Them
BY: MORF MORFORD -- What’s the point of point of a theology if you can’t live it? Martin Luther used to say that your theology should make sense to a child...
Good Weeds: The Gospel as a Good Contagion
CS Lewis used to describe the Gospel as ‘a good contagion’. I would describe the continuing emergence or out-working of the Gospel as the equivalent of good weeds.
No matter how much solid legalism, suffocatin...
We Built This
"'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far a...
The Universe Across Town
Can you picture what we’ll be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger’s hand
In a…desperate land!
“The End” by the Doors
I know most of the drug dealers and prostitutes in my city.
I worked...
Oh Wow
William Shakespeare, in ‘Hamlet’ describes death as “the undiscovered country” from which “no man returns”.
And if we believe in God, there is only one thing we know for sure – if God is here, he is also th...
Mirror, mirror
When a baby looks in a mirror
It sees an ever-deepening mystery,
An ever-changing reversal of the familiar,
Something known and unknown,
Knowable, yet essentially unknowable.
A mirror is a fascinating glimp...
No Bullies – No Victims
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. -W. H. Auden
Sometimes an issue emerges in a culture that takes us by surprise – not because it is so new, b...