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It was 1992 when I read James Cones’s masterful book, “Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?” I was in the middle of my Doctor of Ministry…

Last week in Rehoboth Beach at 3am on a Saturday night, a 21-year-old man and 5 teenagers (ages 13-15) verbally and physically assaulted 3 women because, the victims said, the…

I have always loved the Bible. Since I was a teenager in Sunday school to now, I have loved reading it, studying it, preaching on it, and teaching it. I…

I’m a lucky guy in so many ways. For example, back in 2015 my wife was running an educational program for physicians which happened to be in Vienna (Austria, not…

You see photographs like this occasionally – pictures of churches in Germany with Nazi flags and altar coverings – Hitler knew that using religion to capture devotion was a tried-and-true…

When this song from REM became a hit in 1991, I had never heard the phrase before. I remember, though, that a lot of people lost their you know what…

“It’s the economy, stupid!” This sentiment was first written in a memo by James Carville in 1992 and became the central idea for the Bill Clinton campaign in 1992. More…

When I sit down to write one of these thoughts, I pray. I ask God to guide me so that what I put into words makes sense and, maybe, gives…

Judaism and Christianity are about what we can and cannot do. You can’t have other gods – you can honor your parents. You can’t mistreat the poor – you can…

God isn’t a vending machine. It seems a rather simple idea, but it divides our understanding of the nature of God like nothing else. We are taught at a very…