Neglecting the Spirit

It was maybe 10 years ago that I found a treasure trove at my church. It wasn’t King Tut’s grave, but it was important to us. Behind a stack of…

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Great Replacement Theory (GRT)

Renaud Camus, a racist French writer, coined the “great replacement” formulation. Camus falsely depicted non-white immigration to France from the decolonized Middle East and Africa as an attempt by a…

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Pastoral Ethics/Morality

I was a Local Pastor for two years as I was finishing seminary, and when I graduated, I was placed in a lovely little United Methodist Church in Andover, NJ.…

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Why the Bible Matters

I started to read the Bible when I was about 12 years old. I was in confirmation class, and while we didn’t really study the Bible for class, I wondered…

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Win/Win

We are taught to compete from the time we are very small. Children want to please their parents – parents want their children to succeed – dogs get treats for…

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Religious Trauma

Back in the 1980’s I spoke at an ecumenical clergy meeting about the growing awareness of the Catholic priest pedophile epidemic, and how all Christians needed to work at making…

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