During the 2016 Presidential primary season it has become clear that the American electorate is fed up with government that doesn’t work, with insiders that do not respond, and with processes that self-perpetuate but fail to provide workable solutions to ongoing challenges facing us all. As a result, we have entered a season when outsiders …
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POLITICAL QUESTIONS: Should Politics and Religion not be Mixed?
“Whatever you do, don’t talk about religion or politics!” If you must, “whatever you do, don’t talk about both at the same time!” That is, do not claim that your religion is, in fact, political in nature. And do not act as though your politics traces to some religious claim or commitment. But what if …
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PRAYING FOR PEACE
On this fourth Sunday after Epiphany Christ followers have traditionally prayed that the God of peace would grant “peace in our time.” How timely and wonderful would Heaven-granted peace be in our time! I suppose that would almost always be true, this side of full Kingdom-come. But this week I learned of a remarkable instance …
FOLLOWING DR. KING
The Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social and Spiritual Justice and Advocacy. If there were such a school that offered it, I would enroll for a two week intensive course on identifying, advocating and striving for social justice in America and around the world. Does anyone doubt we need this, the world needs this? …
TERROR, REFUGEES, AND THE MESSIAH WE WELCOME 👣
In December of 2012, Lavone and I were in Bethlehem on what is called Manger Square as the town prepared for its annual lighting of the Christmas tree that marks the official beginning of the Christmas season. The irony of this did not escape us: at or near “ground zero” for the first Advent, are …
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