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 […]

A couple of things have happened since I started thinking about writing this piece.
First came the announcement that Dr. Bruce K. Watke was resigning his position as a Professor of Theology at the Reformed Theological Seminary. In a video that was posted on the BioLogos Foundation website, Dr. Watke not only endorsed evolution but said […]

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. […]

These are my thoughts for the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany, 17 January 2010. The Scriptures for this Sunday are Isaiah 62: 1 – 5, 1 Corinthians 12: 1 – 11, and John 2: 1 – 11. This is also “Human Relations Sunday”.
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Cross-posted to Thoughts From The Heart On The Left – please post your […]

You may or may not know that I am a participant in “The Clergy Project” and its Evolution weekend project (www.evolutionweekend.org).  But this is not the reason for this particular post.
Jess Zimmerman is a junior at Butler University who wrote some blog articles that were critical of the treatment of his stepmother who was removed […]

Something happened at La Sierra University, a small Seventh-day Adventist church in California (see "Creating Controversy") that begs the question of how one holds onto their own personal beliefs when such beliefs contradict or are in conflict with institutional beliefs. In addition, how much academic freedom is to be allowed or granted when the teaching […]

Harry Patch died two weeks ago; he was buried on August 6th. Now, unless you are like me and you listen to the BBC, you probably don’t know who Harry Patch was. He certainly wasn’t important but then again, his death does have some significance. He was the last surviving British veteran of World War […]

“In the beginning” is a phrase that a lot of people have problems with; perhaps not with the words themselves but with how long ago it was. The physical evidence tells me that this world began several million years ago and the universe began even further back in time. But there are those who will […]

N.T. Wright is the Anglican Bishop of Durham (UK) and today he wrote an op/ed for the London-based Times on the subject of The Episcopal Church voting to allow the appointment of active homosexuals to all forms of ministry.  He says that “support by US Episcopalians for homosexual clergy is contrary to Anglican faith and […]

Now, this isn’t a blog about Governor Sanford and his problems, though we are reminded that when one “preaches” about one set of values and then lives and entirely different set of values, it is very difficult for people to hear the truth.
And while I am saddened by the death of Michael Jackson, it isn’t […]

This is a portion of what I have posted on my own blog for this Sunday:
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Abraham Lincoln once told us that the government of this country was a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” But it doesn’t appear to me that we have that sort of government anymore.
In 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 […]

The post on my own blog with this title (Thoughts From The Heart on The Left) is for this coming Sunday but I think that it needs to be on this blog as well.  I have posted a link to the entire piece so that you can continue reading it there (besides, I added a […]

There is an interesting op-ed from Compassion International President and CEO Wess Stafford in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today.  Full disclosure: In my “real life” my firm works with Compassion.  Still, I thought this was an interesting piece and worth sharing.
Currency of compassion halts global food crisis
By Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International
Published by […]

I have mulling over a piece about education and educational processes in today’s society.  But in the meantime, you might want to look at this particular piece in today’s INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION, "The Right To Control Students"
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I am continually struck by how strongly I can affirm, respect and agree with someone one day and then just be blown away by something the next. John Mark Reynolds is a brilliant philosopher and I often read even his political works knowing that they will contain wisdom and insight that many other “conservative” writers […]

Very sad:
The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday after being accused of paying a man for sex in monthly trysts over the past three years.
Haggard — an outspoken opponent of the drive for gay marriage — also stepped down as senior pastor at his 14,000-member […]

Hugh Hewitt, an ordained Presbyterian elder, posts on the new conspiracy book ”Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action” released by the publishing house of the Presbyterian Church (USA). 

So said the new Archbishop of Washington, DC, following a Sunday Mass for peace in Lebanon over which he presided.
The Washington Post reports:
The noon Mass, held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast Washington, was in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s call on Friday for Catholics around the world […]