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Here is some guidance from the Hebrew scriptures on how to vote. How will we believe such candidates? We will listen to their words and we will watch their lives.

Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash He said, “‘Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.’ But they laughed at him.” Only the last laugh counts! “…he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him” — Matthew 9:24 The Last Laugh is the laugh that counts. The last laugh LASTS.…

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash What happened to all the missing socks? They are in the Twilight Zone. There they formed a coalition of mix-matched socks and were animated by a race of invisible shape-shifters. The symbiotic partnership is a thriving example of how entities can work together to form the formless and inform the…

I the past, it was always my practice to to forget what red and blue are as designations for political persuasions and states. I have been losing the game because these colors are constantly in my face. I still now know how to recognize them to some extent, but I am not always successful and …

I the past, it was always my practice to to forget what red and blue are as designations for political persuasions and states. I have been losing the game because these colors are constantly in my face. I still now know how to recognize them to some extent, but I am not always successful and …

Are you disgruntled? Or are you gruntled? Gruntled is a real word, one of the few positives derived from a negative. "disgruntle (v.) 1680s, from dis-, here meaning "entirely, very," + obsolete gruntle "to grumble" (Middle English gruntelen, early 15c.), frequentative of grunt (v.)." You actually can take a negative and fashion a positive from…

Richard Rohr takes the doctrine of the Trinity to illustrate how we, as Christians, must celebrate "clear distinction, pluriformity, and otherness," while affirming that "the infinite trust and flow between them is so constant, so reliable, so true, and so faithful that they are also completely one. They must be diverse, and they must be…

“It costs so little to teach a child to love, and so much to teach him to hate.” – Servant of God Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, 1886-1948 “Christian charity does not consist in the shedding of tears, or in mere preaching, but rather in the doing of that which we preach, and in the actual…