Politics is Religion: Why Abortion Will Continue to Divide Us

One of the great American myths was exposed once again this last week: the myth that we can separate religion from politics. It is often said that religion has no business influencing public policy. Why should one person’s religion dictate the life of another? Thus we separate church and state, ensuring that each individual has...

Church Alone: Learning the Right Lessons During our Social Distance Experiment

It happened. Easter Sunday was observed at a distance. We did not gather together physically to worship. Our worship took place in homes via the internet rather than in sanctuaries. There was no greeting time. No passing the peace. If the Eucharist was observed, it was done in creative ways that allowed folks to partake...

Hard Times in a Hard World

 Oftentimes, life has a way of being self-policing and self-punishing.It's like when a little kid sees a freshly baked batch of cookies on a hot oven tray and reaches out to grab one even though mommy and daddy already said no. In such a situation, no parent in their right mind is going to take...

Beyond the Failure

  I am going to be a little open, honest, and self-revealing here. The idea of failure is something that I struggle with. I realize that I am merely human and that failure, from time to time, is always going to be inevitable. But failure is something that, for some reason, is something that I...

Planet of the Flawed and Broken: There is no “Us” or “Them”

  This last weekend I went to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and I'll be honest and tell you that I thought it was one of the best movies I have seen in years. Really? A sequel to a reboot of a remake from a movie based off of a book about...