Screw Your Neighbor
Have your ever noticed how we so easily invert traditional – even Biblical sayings and values?
We might call ourselves Christians, but our language, if not our behavior, will betray us every day.
As Paul p...
Greater Love?
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-14
That was the inscription under the stained-glass window in a military chapel of a paratrooper in full battle gear on h...
Can we have a Rational Conversation about Guns?
How many more shootings, local or national, do we need?
How many more school shootings do we need before have anything like an adult conversation about these playthings of death that we love so much?
I know...
The Gospel Shell Game
Photo: FlickR/Still Burning
Have you ever known anyone imprisoned by a cell of their own making?
Perhaps we all do it to some degree, but some do it to the extent that their lives are an ever-shrinking, impl...
Jesus, the Ham of God
How did we go from the Passover Lamb to the Easter Ham?
It’s a complicated, not very pretty story, central to modern religious identity and, for those reasons, tucked away from public view.
A truly “new” ...
Bullies R Us
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your d...
An English Teacher Looks At Rush Limbaugh
I teach English, writing and public speaking at the college level.
There are three key principles of communication; to inform, to persuade and to entertain. Effective and memorable communicators will incorpo...
I Know Your Works
I live in what is known as earthquake country. It’s a fairly common sight to see an exposed cliff-side with a diagonal line exposing an ancient earth fracture, where one surface has been split into two pieces ...
Sometimes I See
Sometimes I see
That flickering light,
Sometimes I feel
The earth in motion,
Or maybe it’s a stillness
Beyond stillness.
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Is That Any Way to Treat a Bible?
We are not Catholic, but for a variety of reasons we sent our daughter to Catholic schools.
In a high school religion class, the teacher approached my daughter during class, took her Bible and was horrified...