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My new smart phone: Going tharn
For several years, I’ve been on the sidelines of the smart phone revolution. I have one now, finally, and it’s pushing me around. I’m just a late adopter trying to adapt. It reminds me of my first...
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Church and state: Gay marriage
The Church of England has drawn its sword through the sand. The church opposes a government plan to extend full marriage rights to homosexual couples. It’s a step too far, the church argues in its...
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Mary: Le point vierge
Our Sunday school class has been observing Advent with James Harnish’s little book, When God Comes Down: An Advent Study for Adults. This week’s lesson stirred up more than the usual amount of...
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Advent reflections: Death, heaven, hell & judgment
What better time of year for pondering sacred mysteries than the long, dark days of December? It’s hard to imagine such things when daytime weather is sunny and the air comfortably cool, as it is from...
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St. Nicholas: A bishop, not an elf
St. Nicholas Day (Dec. 6) went virtually unnoticed by most U.S. Christians, whose children have been duped by American materialistic consumerism into believing in “Santa Claus” as a substitute not only...
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Sisera’s mother
Sisera’s mother surely must have known that it might end this way, someday. Her son was of the Canaanite warrior class, a leader among the armies of his day. In a largely agricultural society, he was...
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Confessions of a Christian liberal
Some of my close friends are reveling in the Republican resurgence. Who can blame them? It wasn’t a wave but a sea change that swept the midterm elections. The tide is unlikely to ebb until the world...
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My new smart phone: Going tharn
For several years, I’ve been on the sidelines of the smart phone revolution. I have one now, finally, and it’s pushing me around. I’m just a late adopter trying to adapt. It reminds me of my first...
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Church and state: Gay marriage
The Church of England has drawn its sword through the sand. The church opposes a government plan to extend full marriage rights to homosexual couples. It’s a step too far, the church argues in its...
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Mary: Le point vierge
Our Sunday school class has been observing Advent with James Harnish’s little book, When God Comes Down: An Advent Study for Adults. This week’s lesson stirred up more than the usual amount of...
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Advent reflections: Death, heaven, hell & judgment
What better time of year for pondering sacred mysteries than the long, dark days of December? It’s hard to imagine such things when daytime weather is sunny and the air comfortably cool, as it is from...
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St. Nicholas: A bishop, not an elf
St. Nicholas Day (Dec. 6) went virtually unnoticed by most U.S. Christians, whose children have been duped by American materialistic consumerism into believing in “Santa Claus” as a substitute not only...
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The Houdini Myth: How good stories become scripture
A funny thing happened on the way home from church the other day. I got to wondering about something the preacher said, a great story about Harry Houdini, the escape artist, who built his reputation...
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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...
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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...
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