Commendable in an Age of Short Cuts: Kings, Presidents and Prophets
The Presidential campaign has reached a fever-pitch. Exaggeration, half-truths and lies abound as each party scratches and claws toward election day ...
Lunch for Seniors or a Trip to Mars? Providing for the Least of These
A sure way to start a riot on Facebook is to post a political comment. Nobody agrees on anything political with the exception of the national debt: th...
A Change That’s Hard to Believe In
photo via Political Party PooperNo one wants to talk about compromise unless they know someone else is meeting them halfway, or three-quarters of the...
I Will Pay 11 Cents — A Response to Papa John's
I'll pay 11 cents,
If you will provide health care for the people who work for you.
I'll pay 11 cents,
To make sure a single mom does not have to...
Grandpa's Using Your Credit Card: Why the National Budget is a Moral Issue
For almost fifty years, the federal government has spent more (often much more) than it took in. Continuing that pattern for another ten or twenty y...
Questionable Morality Amongst Pennsylvania Republicans
Not all Republicans are evil, but the leadership of the Republican Party in the state of Pennsylvania has questionable morality. With a Republican go...
RE-Membering Memorial Day
Remember…
…that life is a gift. To call it a gift is to imply that we did not earn it. Life is grace. Peace preserves life. So on this Memorial Day we...
With Morbid Silence: Christian Denial in an Age of Economic Disparity
Whether it is in our passionate recitation from the one line of the one Martin Luther King speech we’ve actually read or the long clap that followed o...