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Thanksgiving reflections: A harvest meal and hope for peace
[This post originally appeared as a newspaper column in the Corpus Christi Times on Nov. 25, 1986.] Christmas you can keep, but I’ll take Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a harvest festival, a celebration...
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Loving America, warts and all
America is and has been a considerably mixed message to the world – and to itself – since the Declaration of Independence was propagated on July 4, 1776. We Americans are – for the most part – citizens...
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Sandersistas: Hold your nose
U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy was my candidate in 1968, and he was clearly the most popular Democrat running for president. He won more primaries than anyone else but lost the nomination to the party...
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Loyal opposition
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.” (Edward R. Murrow) I didn’t vote for Donald Trump, but he’s still my president,...
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Seventy years, day by day
The metaphor works because we live our lives one day at a time; and so, it’s a journey – of sorts. Actually, we live moment to moment but with remarkable capacities for recalling the past and...
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Non-theistic Christianity: Will it preach?
Propers for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (RCL) The Collect: Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief...
View ArticleLa Bahia Cemetery
This might have been better as a Memorial Day post; on the other hand, there’s no good reason not to remember any day and every day those who have died in the line of duty, be they warfighters, first...
View ArticleOur divided brains: The battle for our souls and destiny
Psychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist bites off a huge chunk in the second half of the book I’m reading. I’m sympathetic, of course, because I probably agree with his premise that Western society...
View ArticleAmerica the beautiful, warts and all
Technically, I’d make the case that July 4 is not “America’s birthday,” but that it ought to be on June 21, the ratification date of the U.S. Constitution in 1788. Never mind. This is the weekend for...
View ArticleThe ‘God’ problem
It came to me as I rode bikes this week with Mary and a friend: “God” is a right-brain awareness, and I don’t know whether it lives there as a thought or a concept, so let’s just stick with...
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