It’s been 8 years now since I finished writing and eventually publishing my book, “Love’s Resurrection: its power to roll away fear’s...

As of today, I’m still free to speak my piece in these pages without fear of any aspect of our government arresting and incarcerating me...

Wanted to write and thank you for showing us a nice time; us meaning Sue (wife), Shawnee (our little Dachshund), and myself.     Yes, Sue...

Has it ever seemed to you that people you know and care for have believed a pack of lies someone else has told them about, well,...

So I received a recent ad on-line from a Lutheran Seminary.  (I must have accepted some cookies sometime back.)    Invited me to a new...

As a Christian pastor, I always had a rather different theology than seemingly everyone else.  The tribe I could most comfortably belong...

In the Bible’s Old Testament we can read about what the ancient Jews referred to as the coming “Day of the Lord.”  In the Hebrew (יֹום...

Today begins what the Christian Church often calls the “passion week” of Jesus Christ.  Much attention is paid to the final events of...

Have you ever participated in any kind of a protest march before?   If not, was it because you doubted you could make a difference by...

Some of you may know the ancient Greek fable about Narcissus and Echo.  There are several versions of the tale, but the one I’m most...

Many years back when it was traditional for pastors to do a children’s sermon during Sunday morning worship, one of my favorites to...

As a child I was taught a vast array of different Bible stories, most of which created in my young mind this sense of awe and wonder.  ...

You may identify yourself as being a Christian.   Or not.   My own identity seems to shift back and forth.   Depends entirely on which...

Gary Larsen, creator of The Far Side  cartoons, once drew a scene where Satan and his Chief Foreman were observing some men charged with...

So America has a new, old, leader taking the reigns of Presidential authority.   Now what?   Ordinarily, I for one would not shudder to...

My favorite Christmas movie?     It used to be “It’s a Wonderful Life.”    But that was before life in the United States of America...

What follows is my favorite story of Christmas as attributed to Paul Harvey. " Now the man to whom I’m going to introduce you was not a...

But he (Jesus Christ) said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I (the apostle...

Have you ever been or known someone addicted to a particular activity or substance before?     It is rare to find anyone whose life has...

These are words I seldom hear or even read.  They are anything but trendy in our common vocabulary.    I propose we change that trend...