“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

  • A Review of the Preview and Presented Premise of “A Madman or Something Worse.”

    Peter Brietbart, of Brighton, in England, is a writer for the Freethinker Magazine and a self described, skeptic, atheist, humanist, secularist and President of Sussex University Secular Society." That is fine. He is also a budding film make on a… Continue reading

  • Pentecost

    Tongues of fire descended … and something individual happened. Lighting upon each …dividing … They united all in one Spirit. A paradoxical contradiction connected multiple languages,traditions, and customs into curious Oneness. What could not be achieved by ingenuity,invention, or inquisitive cogitations… Continue reading

  • God’s Not Finished

    I see that Harold Camping, a man for whom I experienced a couple of days of deep sympathy, is at it again – revising his dates, missing the point (The point being that this is not about points, that the… Continue reading

  • Divided Amercia

    There is much talk about the rift in American life – left and right – blue and red – on and on. I was watching a report from a major news source where the commentators were suggesting that it is… Continue reading

  • Prayers for the President

    “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and… Continue reading

  • This Isn’t All

    I've posted this before, but you and I need it today as we often do. Be encouraged by this scripture set to music. Whatever you are going through, remember that the key word is the preposition, "through!" It is not… Continue reading

  • "I remembered you, God, and I groaned. I meditated and my spirit grew faint." – Psalm 77:3 (NIV) What about the comfort, assurance, and peace pour quiet times are supposed to give us? What aboout the nurturing, loving, contemplative moments… Continue reading

  • Seeking the Peace of the City

    If only for selfish reasons, let us seek a pray for even the cities where we are exiled. So often, we have this stranger-exile complex that separates us from the daily concerns of the people of the cities where we… Continue reading

  • ” Let the poor and helpless praise you.”

     20 Remember the agreement you made with us,        because violence fills every dark corner of this land. 21 Do not let your suffering people be disgraced.        Let the poor and helpless praise you. (Psalm 74:20-21, New Century Version) There… Continue reading

  • Just Get on the Bus

    It was 1961. Laws were different then. Some were inherently wicked because their sole intent was to keep people down. That is happening all over the world today. Jim Crow had a franchise on the South. Businesses could decide, based… Continue reading

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