Words or Actions?

I have been writing and preaching a bit lately about performative religion – the kind that is done for show and not for good. The kind that the readings for…

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We Are Better Together, Part 2

In the 1980’s and 90’s our Mainline Protestant churches went through what we called the worship wars. They weren’t even skirmishes, but we can tend to be a bit dramatic…

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We Are Better Together

Ecclesiastes 4 is mostly about how two together is better than one, and that a third strand in a cord is stronger than just two. Jesus told His disciples that…

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Why Can’t We Be Fair?

One of the ongoing divisive issues in America is whether or not voters should have to show identification proving we are American citizens. When I registered to vote in Pennsylvania,…

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I was wrong once before…

My choral director in college used to say, when he made a rare mistake, that he had been wrong once before. Like every dad joke, we youngsters would dutifully chuckle,…

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Fear and Trembling, Part 2

It isn’t wrong to be afraid. We half joke about how we, as kids in the 1970’s and earlier, used to leave home on a Saturday morning and wander around…

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Fear and Trembling

We are a little over a week out from the Super Bowl and the never-ending complaints about Bad Bunny and his family friendly half-time show continue. It is clear that,…

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