Posts by pwsadmin

I have always loved soccer. I first fell in love with it watching the great Pele play, and I decided that, since I wasn’t allowed to play football, soccer would…

I tell people that I was born in this country out of pure luck. I did nothing to make that happen; my parents and their ancestors were, for the most…

This isn’t your run of the mill misogyny – the kind that thinks girls and women can’t do science (sorry Christina!) or math. This isn’t the average dimwitted mansplaining that…

I used to joke that the place I grew up was populated by groups who fled New York City to get away from the people they hated, just to have…

In our worship yesterday, we celebrated being an Open & Affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ. Since I came to Calvary in 1999, I have been pushing the…

As we move towards this 4th of July celebration of our 250th birthday, I have been thinking a lot about the never-ending debates we have about guns and God. Both…

For almost 20 years I have heard people – by people, I mean white people – say that racism is over. After all, we elected a president who was the…

We all know that person that nobody really cares about – and if you don’t, good for you! I have, unfortunately, known too many people like this in my life;…

It took me two nights, but I finally watched the Obama Center ceremony, and that was with a lot of fast forwarding! The highlight for me was Michelle Obama’s speech,…