“When they start gassing the children, enough is enough! Someone needs to do something, fast! The people who have power need to step in, stop the madness, save the children!” I imagine something like that within the mind and heart of our President last Thursday as he announced his ordering of an airstrike on the …
Category Archives: Free Methodism
BUT … IT IS POLITICAL!
In recent days I have heard several people say something like: “I am not trying to be political, now, …” or “Please don’t take this as a political statement,” or “Not to be political but … !” I think I know what each was trying to say, or not to say. But each time I …
IF JESUS WERE AN IMMIGRANT
A lot of people are talking about immigration and immigrants these days. Whether for or against; whether the gospel Jesus proclaimed and embodied has anything to do with it, and if so what; whether immigrants pose a threat to us, and if they do exactly what sort of threat—inconvenience, discomfort, danger, death; whether immigrants from …
THE DREAM LIVES ON
On this day marking the life, leadership and martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, we should pause to give thanks that indeed black lives matter! I am grateful that the life of Dr. King, a man of color, mattered so profoundly, though cut so tragically short. It would do us all good to read again his now …
THE GLORY AND THE PEACE
“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace for people of God’s good will (Luke 2:14).” It is common to pass quickly from these traditional words of praise to the detailed account of what the Shepherds discovered at the Bethlehem crèche—the child swaddled, parents adoringly attending, and the animals carrying on as usual. …