Hegseth’s Doomsday Cult

Hundreds of anonymous reports – because they are afraid of punishment – have been made by members of our armed forces saying that Secretary Hegseth is promoting this Iran War…

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Will We Ever Be United

If we were to look at American history honestly, we would see that there have been very few times when we have been united. I’m not talking about disagreeing or…

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What We Owe The People of Iran

In 1953, the United States overthrew a democratically elected, very popular prime minister – Mohammad Mossadegh – in Iran. (Here is a good synopsis – The 1953 Iran Coup: How…

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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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