Posts by pwsadmin

Back when I was in seminary, I made some really good friends, the kinds of people we all need in our lives. One day, one of them strongly disagreed with…

One of the great joys in my week is sitting down with a funny, interesting 2nd-grade boy almost every Monday morning at 9 to read together. I am on the…

This week I heard a rabbi speak about his attempts to establish an interfaith dialogue with a mega-church pastor in his community, and it didn’t go well. He spoke of…

I will talk about God and religion anywhere with anybody, something that drives those around me a little crazy at times. I do this not so much as to evangelize…

I sat in my messy church office yesterday trying to finish my numerous sermons and other tasks for the coming weeks as I prepare to lift up the anniversary of…

Forgiveness is a tricky thing. On the one hand, Jesus told us to forgive 77 times (or 7 times 7), and He said that the only unforgivable sin is blasphemy…

The images of the actual murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson are disturbing and shocking, but the response across social media has been almost as horrifying. I generally don’t…

My beloved religion professor from college used to tell us that the opposite of faith is not atheism, it is apathy. From voting to volunteering to being active in a…

Yesterday I attended a second memorial service for my friend, Jack Abel. I went to the first one because I happened to be off for the weekend and was staying…

After I wrote part 1 yesterday, I had two vivid memories of lessons learned about dissent in my early days. The first was my father, who claimed to be an…