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Month: March 2018

Economic Struggle

Posted on March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Last week I talked with a church that is going through severe staff reductions because the economy has hit their area particularly hard. The pastor lamented that they now are going to have to cover al... Read More

Protests, Then and Now

Posted on March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Yesterday was Palm Sunday. I wonder how many preachers drew a parallel between the political parade that Jesus led into Jerusalem and the marches that took place around the country on Saturday, marche... Read More

Resisting by Composting

Posted on March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Last night, Brix and I got on our apartment building’s elevator to go downstairs for his last walk of the evening, and with us was a fellow who had a clear plastic bowl full of food. At first, I... Read More

A Little Red-Haired Angel

Posted on March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Like many of you, I am sure, I have had my fair share of inflight annoyances from other passengers. For example, there was the time when I was seated in front of two indulgent parents and their four-y... Read More

Security

Posted on March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Flying as much as I do, I think often about “security.” Ben Franklin offered some now-famous words that are little heeded: “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain secur... Read More

Our Silence Will Not Save Us

Posted on March 15, 2018March 15, 2018 by LiberatingWord
So, we are going to have a new Head Peacemaker. After Secretary of State Rex Tillerson criticized the Russians for trying to murder two people with a banned chemical on the streets of London, he was f... Read More

A Plague of Our Own Making

Posted on March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Earlier this week, the occupant of the White House back peddled previous statements about gun laws and went back to being a good boy under the control of the National Rifle Association. He said there ... Read More

Gumption

Posted on March 13, 2018March 14, 2018 by LiberatingWord
I had the honor of preaching in Windsor, Connecticut on Sunday. The scripture lesson was from John 3. Jesus tells Nicodemus that the Spirit is like an unpredictable and uncontrollable wind. I love tha... Read More

The Irony of Being Born Again

Posted on March 12, 2018March 14, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Yesterday’s assigned Gospel lesson was about Nicodemus’s nighttime visit with Jesus. Fundamentalists love the part about being “born again” and use it as a litmus test for whet... Read More

Paying the Price

Posted on March 8, 2018March 7, 2018 by LiberatingWord
Pharaoh was the most powerful man in the world. The Egyptians believed the pharaoh was a god, yet there was something about a shepherd named Moses that threatened and annoyed Pharaoh beyond rationalit... Read More
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