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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…

The man next to me in church who hated Koreans – the nice lady up the street who hated Jews – the volunteer who works with the homeless who hates…

While, as I wrote yesterday, I am a self-avowed, practicing Heretic, I am objective enough, I think, to recognize that there are dangers in this kind of thinking and living…

Full Disclosure – I have been called a Heretic for most of my life. I know that comes as no surprise to most people, but it is important to put…

We can blame the Greeks, mostly, although English writers are the ones who put the term into our common lexicon. The idea that “Beauty is in the eye of the…

The Prayer of Jabez is at the root of the vast greed empire known as prosperity preaching, and it appears in 1 Chronicles 4:10. This is the verse: “Oh that…