Author Archives: rthenderson

BLOG 1/14/15. THE CHURCH WHERE YOU’RE NOT LOOKING Let me pursue the question I asked in my 1/11/15 blog about: where would some seeking “motherless child” look to find what his/her heart was looking for? I offered up one episode … Continue reading →

LOG 1/11/15. TO ‘MOTHERLESS CHILDREN’: WHERE DO YOU LOOK? I was, frankly, quite surprised at the much larger than normal response to my Blog about motherless children last week, and it prompts me to pass along a necessary follow-up to … Continue reading →

BLOG. 1/7/15. OCCASIONALLY … A BRIEF BIT OF SELF-PROMOTION We get a weekly update in the NYT about their ‘Best Seller Book List’ and I am totally out of that league—nowhere even close. But if they published a counterpart, something … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/4/15. THE “MOTHERLESS CHILD” SYNDROME I was having supper recently at a favorite restaurant in the village of Oak Grove when I encountered a fascinating younger guy, who is a very gifted journalist by profession. He related how he … Continue reading →

BLOG 12/28/14. THE POST-CHRISTMAS EVENT WE WISH TO OVERLOOK It is interesting that when the church developed it liturgical calendar, those many centuries ago, that the third day after Christmas: The Birth of Jesus, was designated to observe that horrible … Continue reading →

BLOG 12/21/14: THERE’S SOMETHING ‘NOT SAFE’ ABOUT MARY AND JESUS Amidst all of the ‘schmaltz’ (maudlin sentimentality) that has come to interpret/misinterpret the Advent celebration of our contemporary scene, a text that seems to get skipped-over so often is Mary’s … Continue reading →

BLOG 1217/14. CAN WE DEMYTHOLOGIZE CLERGY? This Blog is something of a confession, and may get me in trouble (so what’s new?), but I have been “ordained” now for sixty years, but so help me, I cannot find any reference … Continue reading →

BLOG 12/14/14. A PROTESTANT: “HAIL, MARY?” I started my pilgrimage as a follower of Christ in that part of the Protestant tradition where the Roman Catholic Church, and everything to do with it, was regarded with dire suspicion as some … Continue reading →

BLOG 12/10/14. THE CHURCH BEHIND THE CHURCH: BENEATH THE RADAR From its very beginning the church has been called to: “Examine yourselves, to see whether you in in the faith. Test yourselves” (II Cor. 13:5). Or, maybe: “I know your … Continue reading →

BLOG 12/7/14. THE CHURCH BEHIND THE CHURCH: THE LOVE OF MUSIC Those regular readers of these blogs know all too well by now that I, Bob Henderson, have something of a lover’s quarrel with the church as we have inherited … Continue reading →