“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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Latest Posts

  • Violence in the News – Blessed Are the Peacemakers

    Violence – Our culture thrives on it, or pretends to do so, fooling itself into believing it is being nurtured or protected by it. Continue reading

  • I Love Name Calling

    Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and they are always glad you came. Continue reading

  • The Prince and the Pea

    The Prince of Peace is sensitive enough to notice the smallest gift given in love.   As he taught, Jesus said, “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with… Continue reading

  • Babylon the Great Is Fallen

    This subversive circular is calling out power for its tracking of humanity. The test of authenticity, legitimacy, and righteousness in any system of commerce and government with all their entanglements may well be — Does it profit from the enslavement… Continue reading

  • Good News on a Sabbath Day

    Speaking a word of liberation and healing is not desecrating, but celebrating Sabbath in its truest meaning. Continue reading

  • Up Against the Rocks

    There is a fallacy that we can alleviate evil by just being harsher in our judgments and punishments. History and the social sciences join this text in bringing that assumption into question. Revelation 16:1: takes us to an eternal grandstand… Continue reading

  • Political String Theory (Whatever that Means)

      The Future in a Multiverse Vision of Universal Prayerful, Personal, and  Political Possibilities or … Who Is Pulling Our STRINGS? Photo by Terri Bleeker on Unsplash Through our personal, prayerful, and political choices, we are working together with God to create a… Continue reading

  • Photo by Bruno Martins on Unsplash " Do not cast me off in the time of old age;forsake me not when my strength is spent." -Psalm 71:9 (ESV) My heart is young. My mind is young . My dreams are young. My hope… Continue reading

  • I Have Already Come

    We don’t want to do it again, but we can. Continue reading

  • This Is Your Moment

    Moments create momentum without being obvious or ostentatious. Continue reading

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