Politics, Prejudices, and Hungry Dogs
It was a cold and drizzling Easter Sunday morning, early just before the sun rises, in rural northern Kentucky. I was assisting the local Methodist pastor in leading the community Sunrise Easter Service.
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Was Jesus a Bigot? He Did Call a Woman a Dog
One of the biggest barriers to helpful, healthy conversation about the Christian faith seems to revolve around fear. What if I don’t know something I should and others find out? What if I ask a question that m...
Foreclosure Tourism
If you think driving by a series of For Sale signs in your neighborhood is sobering, consider what a closer look might hold.
I took a real estate sponsored tour of foreclosed homes in my area recently. These ...
Women of Winter: The Outcasts
About a month ago, I finished reading a book by one of my favorite Christian authors, Max Lucado. The title of this book is “God Came Near”, arguably his best written and perhaps most popular book. One of th...
To What KIND of Sinners Was Jesus a Friend?
It’s no secret that Christians, of various flavors and stripes, are all over the board on how we deal with sin and Sinners. Though most of us have all sort of grudgingly agreed to “hate the sin and love the ...
Am I Part of the 99% or the 1%? (Scattered Thoughts on #OccupyWallStreet and Global Poverty)
For the past several weeks, many of us who believe that the economic values of the United States are broken, have watched Occupy Wall Street on the news with awe. There’s something about a nonviolent prote...
Hiroshima and the Transfiguration: A Meditation
It must be one of the extraordinary accidents of history that the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, which marks the annual Feast of the Transfiguration for Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox ...