Posts by pwsadmin

The MAGA movement swept President Trump into office and has been a bone of contention in America ever since. Its defenders say there is nothing wrong with the phrase –…

I was lucky enough to have the amazing Rev. Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor as my advisor for my Doctor of Ministry program. Dr. Proctor was a professor of education at…

If you read my thoughts regularly, you know that I am pretty hard on clergy who misbehave. This has been a concern of mine ever since I served in my…

One of the things I enjoy about having a Sunday off is the opportunity to worship in different places. This past week we ventured into a Lutheran Church, and it…

Once more I will go into the fray around transgender concerns. It seems that another “pastor”, this time of the megachurch Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, CA, is labeling what…

There was a recent article about a town in Ohio where a school budget was voted down because a Yes vote would have made the district allow transgender youth the…

I will begin by saying that I have been called a heretic many times over the years for some of the views I hold about Scripture. For example, I do…

I said this – “People need a safety net, not a hammock” – to a group of friends in Seminary in the early 1980’s, and you would have thought I…

I’m doing something today that I have never done before; I am giving the invocation/grace at the Berks County Law Day Lunch. I could start with any number of jokes…

I realized fairly early on in my professional ministry that most of the people who came to me to get married in the church I served were using me. I…