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As a kid, I thought about God a lot. That may have been an unusual thing for a kid to do, but God was on my mind constantly. Maybe it…

For a couple of years back in the late 80’s I led a week-long junior high retreat at Camp Aldersgate in Northern New Jersey focused on justice and peace. The…

This morning at 8 at Calvary UCC in NW Reading, PA, we will be gathering for the first meeting of what I have loosely termed, The God is Love Initiative.…

A town near us has a couple of festivals every year and they close the main street so there is no traffic. This means that businesses with parking lots can’t…

It was many years ago that I was at a church service and sang, for the first time, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, also called the Black National Anthem. I…

The headline caught my eye: Pastor of Missouri church calls autism ‘demonic,’ says it can be ‘healed’ with prayer. This alleged christian preached that, since God doesn’t “mess up”, things…

I’m only one person. That’s what Moses said – that’s what Jonah thought – that’s what Elijah said, too. It’s me against the world. I can imagine God saying, “Hello?…

In a recent Facebook conversation that included people who don’t hate people who are trans and people who don’t understand them, my friend, the Rev. Barb Peronteau, made a simple,…

I was always told that the truth hurts when we don’t like what we are hearing. Jack Nicholson’s movie character told us, “You can’t handle the truth!” Jesus said that…

When we were attacked on September 11th, we responded with courage and compassion. For a short time, we cared about people we had never thought about before. It didn’t matter…