The news makes for a Psalm 107 litany of despair and frustration
My loved ones and I spontaneously constructed our own Psalm 107 yesterday as the news forced its way into our consciousness. I wrote a blog post about it. It was …
Want to move to Canada after last night’s debate? I have another way.
We have bigger fish to fry Some of my friends were talking last night after the presidential debate about how they felt dissatisfied with both Hillary and Trump. They saw …
Why the Brexit has me longing for alternativity
I wasn’t sure how to sort through all of the news about Brexit over the weekend. It seems that people are afraid and longing for security. Put another way, I …
The third way isn’t about extreme positions or a banal balance
On Sunday I was teaching about Mark 10, the part where the Pharisees offer Jesus a rather controversial question about marriage and divorce to which there was no real contemporary …
The ice is melting
Two things blasted out from the newspaper last Thursday. 1) The Verizon workers finally got fed up and went on strike. While Verizon makes billions of dollars, they minimally give …