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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…

Abortion has been the hottest social argument in America and around the world for at least 7 decades (but it has always existed), and recent rulings have reminded all of…

Yes – I have written a lot about these groups over the years, and our church became the first Open & Affirming UCC congregation in this part of the state…

I touched on this a little when I wrote about salvation and death, but I think Hell deserves its own place in how we distinguish between good and bad theology.…

If I have one more conversation like this, I might actually scream – at least, on the inside. I meet someone who knows or finds out that I am a…

Some years ago, two Jehovah’s Witness members showed up at our house to save our souls. While my wife would have preferred I not deal with them, I let them…

I was not exposed to a lot of death when I was young, with the exception of the television reports about Viet Nam, which seemed so disconnected from my small…

Ask almost any member of the clergy if they would rather do a funeral or a wedding, and the vast majority of them will say, without a doubt, a funeral.…