Monthly Archives: January 2015

BLOG 1/28/15. CHRIST, ISLAM, AND ‘MOTHERLESS CHILDREN’ A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog describing some conversation partners whose spiritual emptiness and agnosticism reminded me of the old spiritual song: “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child … … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/25/15. CHRISTIAN FAITH: COMFORT OR OFFENSE? It is an issue, or a question, that has confronted Christ’s followers, and his church, from its very inception: Is Christ’s gospel a message of comfort, or is it an offense? The answer: … Continue reading →

BLOG. 1/21/15. IT’S A PUZZLE OF WHY THE CHURCH EVEN EXISTS! Did you ever stop and ponder how ridiculous it is that the church even exists? Those two millennia ago, out there on the remote corner of the Roman Empire, … Continue reading →

1/18/15. A PROPHET OF HOPE, AND A PRACTITIONER OF RECONCILIATION Since tomorrow is our national Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, I thought I might introduce to some of my readers another incredibly significant civil rights figure who has influenced so … Continue reading →

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 →