Tired of Being Used

I have an interesting search history. Most of what passes by my feed is made up of electric guitars, million-dollar boats (once can dream, can’t one), and articles about the…

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We Need Each Other

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of my mom’s death, and the day before I found out that my older brother (by 11 months) died. Those numbers are significant to me…

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No, God Doesn’t

I know that I touch on this subject occasionally, but I hear it so much that I feel the need to address it again. The other day I heard someone…

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Religious Grudges

I was two years old when the Supreme Court ruled that forcing people to pray in public schools was unconstitutional. That means illegal, for the few that don’t get that.…

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Dream or Nightmare?

It was 1992 when I read James Cones’s masterful book, “Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?” I was in the middle of my Doctor of Ministry…

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Bad People

Last week in Rehoboth Beach at 3am on a Saturday night, a 21-year-old man and 5 teenagers (ages 13-15) verbally and physically assaulted 3 women because, the victims said, the…

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He’s Coming Back?

I’m a lucky guy in so many ways. For example, back in 2015 my wife was running an educational program for physicians which happened to be in Vienna (Austria, not…

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Evil Religion

You see photographs like this occasionally – pictures of churches in Germany with Nazi flags and altar coverings – Hitler knew that using religion to capture devotion was a tried-and-true…

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