Why Care about Israel’s Restricting Supreme Court
Why We Should Care about Israel’s New Law Restricting the Power of the Supreme Court Evangelical motives are not always pure, but they are almost never hidden. Bottom line: Evangelicals love and...
View ArticleCountry Music’s Populism Showing Out in “Try that in a Small Town”
There’s a feeling that the whole world has gone populist! Country singer Jason Aldean’s song, “Try that in a Small Town” suggests that populism invaded America. I argue that populism has been part of...
View ArticleThe Only Good Canaanite Is a ….
Are you familiar with the term “boggle threshold”? “Boggle” is a word game, but for psychologists it defines the point the mind boggles when confronted with some new idea. Letters in no particular...
View ArticleBoredom: How Trumpism Ends
www.whisperingoakslodge.com Soren Kierkegaard defines boredom as a sense of emptiness and examines it not as an absence of stimulation but as an absence of meaning — an idea that also explains why it’s...
View ArticleCampaigning on a Mugshot: From the County Jail to the White House
www.ebay.com Behold the face that launched “birtherism,” thousands of lies, a movement of millions of angry Americans, hundreds of times of taking the “fifth,” and incoherent speeches filled with...
View ArticleNow This Is a Small Town
Now, This Is a Small Town Grudges, political infighting, accusations, gossip, rumors galore! Now, this is a small town. The small town of Marion, Kansas has erupted into an oversized attack on the...
View ArticleLiberals Are Coming for Our Grills
cambridgeqatar.com Sen. Marsha Blackburn claims “the left” is coming “for your grills.” Maybe the Labor Day weekend triggered her odd response or heat wave. In any event “grills” have now been added to...
View ArticleDonald Trump: The Last White President
Trump Is the Last White Man to Be President Trump is the last white man – the symbol of the hopes and dreams of white men that they can rule the world once again. The passing of the torch always has an...
View ArticleHow 9/11 Fueled 1/06
How 9/11 Fueled 1/06 Donald Trump’s indictment on charges that he incited the insurrection on January 6, 2021, brings that infamous day back into the vision of the American people. I believe that 1/06...
View ArticleA Map for Leaving MAGA Land
A Map for Leaving MAGA Land Democracy, always a glass house, faces attack from all sides. The attacks are generated by demagogic candidates taking a wrecking ball to democracy. This theme is...
View ArticleThe Church Needs More Philosophers
The Gospel and PhilosophyJohn 1:1-14 and Matthew 2:1 – 11 The Feast Day of the Epiphany celebrates the revealing of Jesus to the Gentiles – the visit of the wise men. In Eastern tradition it is known...
View ArticleFarewell to Anti-Intellectual Christianity
Farewell to Anti-Intellectual Christianity There’s an anti-intellectual plague in our nation. Standing up to “these experts” has become a badge of honor among evangelical preachers as they shake their...
View ArticleMartin’s Dream or Donald’s Nightmare
Martin’s Dream or Trump’s Nightmare January 15 would have been the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. The Civil Rights icon and American prophet offered our nation a dream of freedom,...
View ArticleWhy Conservative Politicians Struggle with the “Civil War”
Why Conservative Politicians Struggle with the Civil War If the psychologist said, “I’m going to say a phrase and I want you to say the first thing that pops into your mind. The phrase: “Civil War.”...
View ArticleOrdain Women Priests and Pastors
Ordain Women Priests and Pastors Watching an episode of The Great, I was intrigued by Katherine the Great’s insistence that women be treated with equality in an age when women were objects not persons....
View ArticleThe Politics of Jesus vs. The Politics of Donald Trump
The Politics of Jesus vs. The Politics of Trump As an evangelical Christian, I have grave difficulties with the disparity between the politics of Jesus and the politics of Donald Trump. A huge chasm...
View ArticleThe Politics of Jesus and the Politics of Donald Trump – II
The Politics of Jesus and the Politics of Trump – II Perhaps no political conversation bears a great similarity to our current malaise than Jesus speaking with Pilate. After a lengthy discussion about...
View ArticleRemedial Work: What God Loves and Hates
Remedial Work: What God Loves and Hates From the first time I saw the banner headline of the late Fred Phelps, “GOD HATES FAGS,” I have felt compelled to dissent from this piece of virulent theology. I...
View ArticleThe Church Has an Unclean Spirit
The Church Has an Unclean SpiritMark 1:21-45 I want to talk about a man with an unclean spirit, not because I want to pick a fight, but because the church is being poisoned by the spirit of an unclean...
View ArticleThere’s Trouble, Trouble Right Here in Church
“Trouble Trouble Right Here in Church” I Corinthians 9:16-23 Clyde Edgerton’s novel Where Trouble Sleeps takes place in sleepy Listre, North Carolina. No one ever thought trouble would take up...
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