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BLOG 3/20/16. I’M FOR A RADICALLY THIS-WORLDLY CHRISTIAN FAITH That’s right. I’ve about ‘had it’ with detached, other-worldly expressions of the Christian faith that don’t take this world as the object of Christ’s re-creative love seriously. I look at so … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/16/16. THOSE REMARKABLE PERSONS KNOWN AS: CLERGY In my last blog I wore my ecclesiastical gadfly hat and challenged the whole category of sacralized persons known as clergy (or as: the reverend). Now let me reverse the field and … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/13/16. AN M.DIV DEGREE AND $2.00 WILL BUY YOU A CUP OF COFFEE! OK, maybe it’s time to revisit the whole concept of clergy (and maybe lose a lot of friends), but periodically I think we need to de-mythologize … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/9/2016. APPLE, AIRBNB, UBER … AND THE CHURCH Those who think creatively and who think futuristically fascinate me. As someone has said, such creative people “suspend the horizons within which everyone else thinks.” I sat listening in utter fascination … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/6/16. IS THERE A FUTURE FOR OSSIFIED, OR MORIBUND, CHURCHES? This is as painful a subject for ostensible church communities as is terminal cancer for an individual. It is the question of the future for church institutions that have … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/2/16. “WITHOUT BLOOD, OR SPERM, OR EXCREMENT” WHAT? This may sound weird, but stick with me here. Somewhere I have misplaced my copy of the wonderful novel Zorba the Greek, so I am resorting to my fallible memory and … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/24/2016. ON A PERSONAL NOTE: BLACKNALL MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH’S CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION As my Facebook friends discovered, I celebrated my 88th birthday last Sunday. That’s a long time to live. It is also is filled with fascinating memories, joyful and … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/21/2016. POLITICS, THE CHURCH, AND THE GIFT OF RE-IMAGINING In the omni-present political reporting during this presidential campaign season, there is the editorial observation that Generation Z (or the iY Generation) is tending to forsake Hillary for Bernie for … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/17/16. “MUST’VE BEEN BITTEN BY A RADID FUNDAMENTALIST!” The erudite and humorous church historian, Richard Lovelace, with his gift of metaphor, once sought to explain why some folk were so antagonistic to the Christian faith and to the Christian … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/14/2016. THE CHURCH IS ALWAYS HUMANLY IMPOSSIBLE There is something awesome (and maybe a bit humorous) about the meeting this past week of the heads of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches. Here were the leaders of two … Continue reading →