Cultural Hypocrisy

For years I have been joking (or have I?) about starting a class-action lawsuit against any non-Christian entity or person who is using “Christmas” to sell stuff. No more selling…

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Something to Unite Around

About a week ago, a group of people dressed in black with red masks (funny how they are afraid to let us know who they are) marched through Columbus, Ohio,…

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Time Passes Us All

A couple of months ago I wrote about the episode at the Drew University library in which I shocked two twenty-year-old students with the revelation that I had been a…

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Differences Make Us Great

Transgender Day of Remembrance services have been taking place since 1998 and have grown to be an international event. I can’t recall the first time one was held in my…

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Happiness, Part 2

To say that happiness is a choice is mostly true, but not always. I have known a lot of unhappy people in my life, and most of them were feeling…

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Happiness

I was watching 60 Minutes on Sunday night, and they did this really adorable piece about Bhutan, a small nation in the Himalayas, just to the north of Bangladesh. The…

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Facts and Elitism

There’s been a meme going around saying that 54% of American adults read at or below a 6th-grade level. This is meant to denigrate those who voted for candidates that…

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All or Nothing?

Life is complicated. We prefer simple, easy answers. And there lies the rub. For decades people have been explaining the growth of fundamentalism as a desire for people to find…

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A Spiritual Resistance, Part 4

Let me lay this scenario before you. You are a good person who believes in women’s equality and same-sex marriage. Some aspects of “woke” culture concern you, but you are…

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Which Way Do You Follow God?

In Bibles studies about equality, I often start with Genesis 1 & 2. Genesis 1 is evolutionary, six days long, with God being plural and men and women being created…

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