Posts by pwsadmin
You Keep Your Religion and I’ll Keep Mine
Acts 17 tells the story of the Apostle Paul going to Athens, Greece, and sharing his understanding of Jesus as the Messiah. The story goes on, telling us that the…
Read MoreIs An Imperfect Bible Good Enough?
For my entire adult life, I have been having conversations with people who believe that the Bible is without any errors – perfect in every way. I have worked very…
Read MoreWords 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…
Read MoreWe 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…
Read MoreWe 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…
Read MoreWhy 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,…
Read MoreI 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,…
Read MoreHouse the Homeless, or Build Gulags?
In the area where I live, we recently found out that the Federal Government paid over $200 million for two facilities to warehouse immigrants caught in America without papers. Many…
Read MoreFear and Trembling, Part 3 – Learning to Love
Crime in America has been gradually decreasing, with an occasional bump up, since it peaked in the 1990’s, and that is a testimony to the work of politicians, residents, and…
Read MoreFear 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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