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I have mentioned before that the place I currently live – Berks County, PA – is a place of interesting contrasts. While it has changed a lot in the 30…

I always got the message growing up that our family might not have had much (a nice way to say we were poor), but at least we had culture (translation…

I did a presentation yesterday in Wayne, PA, and after I was done a woman came up to me and told me about the church she grew up in. She…

It is well known that Beyonce is brilliant and talented. Queen Bey, as she is known to her fans, released two country songs the day of the Super Bowl, and…

The congregation I serve has a tremendous physical plant. It isn’t just that the Sanctuary is a work of art; the over 26,000 square feet of space is a great…

I was at a family funeral this past weekend and got to sit with some old friends and new acquaintances. As we caught up with the people we knew, I…

Two things happened at opposite ends of the planet that are, I think, connected. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs are fully people. Ghana passed a law making…

We are all the victims of other people’s judgments, and other people are the victims of ours. Nobody gets through life without experiencing both of these phenomena, no matter how…

When the MAGA phenomena (Make America Great Again) became a thing, lots of people freaked out. Accusations of totalitarianism, racism, Luddite thinking, and the end of an Empire were tossed…

Nex Benedict was a 16-year-old nonbinary high school student in Oklahoma who died after an incident of abuse in a bathroom at school on February 7th. The police say it…