Regardless of ones’ political opinions regarding our current president, his sycophantic administration, and enabling congressional minions, the desecration of our natural capital should more than trouble us all. The self-aggrandizement now seen in an arch, reflecting pool, ballroom, cage fight stage on the White House South Lawn, and gigantic banners trumpeting his name and colossal…
Every day – EVERY – day the news of our country’s slide backward into the would-be white, nationalist country of the late nineteenth century overwhelms the mind and heart. Added to that, the daily news of the overt corruption of the current government in Washington profiting from Maga Republican moral arrhythmia threatens us all with…
While one certainly does not get such an impression from their record of accomplishment listed in the synoptic Gospel records, the original twelve disciples were a remarkable collection of diverse thinking and accomplished people. Even the woefully misunderstanding Judas! The original twelve disciples of Jesus who made up his inner circle were diverse in politics,…
Regardless of our political points of view, I think a common ground experience for all of us is the upending discovery that there is no common ground. In these earthquaking, earthshaking times there are four spiritual foundation stones which Jesus taught that are unshakable. Building our lives on these stones will prepare us to live…
Most of us have heard the engaging and revealing comment that goes something like this. “Ginger Rogers did all the things in dance that Fred Astaire did. Except she did all those steps backwards and in high heels.” Jesus is sometimes referred to as “Lord of the Dance.” We even have a hymn that describes…
Laureen and Willie are remarkable people. I know because for a number of years they were, along with their young son, members of our congregation in Cleveland. It was a privilege to know them. When professional opportunities called them to Minneapolis, while important for them, their move was a significant loss for our Cleveland congregation….
Chris Quinn is the President/Editor of Cleveland’s daily newspaper, The Plain Dealer. In a message to several thousand of us on his daily text communication regarding The Plain Dealer journalism focus, Quinn made the observation that President Donald J. Trump “owns the daily news cycle like no predecessor.” Setting President Trump’s actions aside and setting…
Advent is the season of expectation. Advent is the season of expecting that something great, wonderful, redemptive, fulfilling, and pregnant with promise is about to occur. We need such a season. Absent an advent season in our lives – absent a season of expectation that something great, wonderful, redemptive, fulfilling, and pregnant with promise will…
I just have had a conversation with a man whose wife of 65 years recently passed away. As he was in life, he was with her at the end. He told me that moments after her last breath the atmosphere in the room suddenly changed. The air in the room seemed to take on a…
This past March, with two procedures spaced apart by several weeks, I had cataract surgery on both eyes. The cloudy lenses were removed and replaced with clear artificial ones. The result has been, among other things, a renewed ability to see the vibrancy of color. When I returned home after the first procedure, it appeared…