These are my thoughts for the past week as well as for this Sunday, May 9, 2010, the 6th Sunday of Easter and Mother’s Day. The Scriptures for this Sunday are Acts 16: 9 – 15, Revelation 21: 1 – 10, 22 – 22: 5, and John 14: 23 -29.
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The title of this piece comes […]
This is a copy of a letter that we have sent Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).
Dear Senator Schumer,
Let us start off by saying that you have lost two votes when you seek reelection to the United States Senate.
We have made this decision because of your recent statements to an Israeli political commentator. It is one thing […]
Well, it’s almost spring, no matter what some rodent may have seen or not seen. I have never quite understood what Groundhog Day was all about. After all, if you look at a calendar and you agree that spring will begin on the Vernal Equinox, then there are seven weeks between Groundhog Day and spring. […]
The other day I posted “How Ironic” to alert you all to what was happening at Butler University. It was announced over the last two days that the University was dropping its lawsuit (see “Butler Drops Suit Against Student Blogger”) against the anonymous student blogger. But it was also indicated that there was still the […]
Here are my thoughts for the 2nd Sunday in Easter. The Scriptures for today are Acts 4: 32 - 35, 1 John 1: 1 - 2: 2, and John 20: 19 - 31. This is also a political piece but the times demand it.
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For as long as I can recall, I have considered myself a […]
In the beginning there was nothing. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. (From The Message, Genesis 1: 1) For cosmologists, in this nothingness before the moment of creation through the Big Bang, there was nothing but chaos. There was […]
I approach January 20, 2009, with mixed emotions and ambivalence. I sense the historic nature of what is about to happen but I also remember what happened forty years ago.
You have to understand that I have two hometowns – the place where I was born and the place that I identify with. I was born […]
This is the day that the American Revolution was about - the chance for the people of the country to have a say in the government of the the country. Now, in the case of today’s Presidential election, we are not voting for the candidate of our choice but rather for a slate of electors […]
It is Saturday, November 1, 2008, and in three days we will conclude the election process for 2008. I have my preferences about who I want to win but I have also become increasingly disillusioned about the election process and what it says about “we, the people.”
We have not yet voted for the people who […]
My thoughts for this 4th of July, 2008, are posted on my own page - "Just What Exactly Is Freedom?". I am preaching this coming Sunday and this post is my message for today.
I don’t know if the song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young is appropriate for this particular piece but the title is.
If you were like me, when you went to high school, you studied the Constitution of the United States. There were probably very subtle reasons for doing so but it was most certainly so […]
Happy 4th!
Mr. Mayor; Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.
We stand today in the shadow of history.
We gather here in the very Cradle of Liberty.
It is an honor and a pleasure to be the speaker of the day–an honor because of the long and distinguished list of noted orators who have preceded me on this platform, a […]
