What Does God Care About?

For many years I have – half-jokingly – talked about my pet peeves, of which I have many. I have found, by the way, that most people are the same…

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Mary’s Revolution

I have been at a men’s clergy retreat since Tuesday, and our topic last night was Mary, the Mother of Jesus. We have been looking at the Gospel readings for…

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Does God Answer Prayers?

I have heard this old story a dozen times in sermons but was reminded of it during Hurricane Helene. A massive hurricane is moving towards land, and everyone is told…

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Equality is a God-Thing

I read an article the other day about attitudes toward having a woman as president of the United States. The results were predictable: Those who opposed the idea were mostly…

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Privilege Knows No Limits

This happened back in June, but I just saw it last week in my news feed. It seems that a Missouri couple living seasonally (do we call that summering?) in…

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More Hypocrisy, Part 2

It seems that I could write an entire daily blog on hypocrisy alone; of course, Jesus seemed to talk a lot about, so it is nothing new. This time it…

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More Hypocrisy

Mark Robinson is running for governor in N. Carolina. He is their first lieutenant governor who is African American. He has recently gotten into trouble for a number of things,…

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Cults

20 years ago, I was involved with our local wrestling program, helping at the high school and with the kid’s club. The entire enterprise was well run and coordinated, and…

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