Posts by pwsadmin
Equity
I know – this concept has been taken up and down and all around so many times it has become boring. But equity isn’t a boring concept, and it isn’t…
Read MoreConstitutional?
LifeWise is a ministry that is an extension of Stand For Truth Ministries, a fundamentalist group headed by Joel Penton, a former Ohio State football player. This group (LifeWise) promotes a “bible-believing”…
Read MoreWe Hear What We Want to Hear
We all do it – we listen with one ear open while half (or more) of our brain is formulating our response based on our opinion, our lens, and our…
Read MoreAre you a Good Christian or a Bad Christian?
Okay – I’m just parodying the Wizard of Oz; I don’t plan to define either, and I know that there is good in all of us. Today’s thought asks the…
Read MoreNew Things
At a meeting the other night a retired physician, whom I greatly respect and have known for over 20 years, said that at the age of 86, “I feel like…
Read MoreFighting Fascism
Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day (the D was actually just a placeholder that has no actual meaning); when over 300,000 Allied troops stormed the beach at Normandy, France.…
Read MoreDominant Masculinity, Part 2
As I wrote two days ago, I did almost all the cooking in our household based on schedule, not skill. To our family, this was just normal. We raised both…
Read MoreLove Heals Trauma
I recently listened to an interview on WHYY with Dr. Frank Anderson, a psychiatrist who is an expert in trauma. Although he had worked with many patients and written books…
Read MoreDominant Masculinity
The other day I saw an interview in which Jerry Seinfeld said, “I like a real man.” He went on to name a few: JFK, Mohammed Ali, Howard Cosell (what?).…
Read MoreYou’re Smart? That’s Nice
The 2011 movie, “The Help”, was a remarkable piece of storytelling. In the movie, there is a touching scene in which the nanny, Aibileen, tells Mae, the child she is…
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