Monthly Archives: January 2020

At this confusing and frightening moment in our nation’s history, I am reminded of the wonderful and helpful poem/hymn by G.K.Chesterton, and offer it to my readers: O God of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry, our … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/28/20. “MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL     PEOPLES.” At the height of the civil rights movement I was pastor of a church in New Orleans that had this text from Isaiah 56:7 sculpted … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/20/20. A FRIGHTENING PARALLEL WITH NAZI GERMANY Germany in the late 1920s and 1930s was a very enlightened nation in every way. It was a center of higher education, of music and the arts, of science and technology, … … Continue reading →

BLOG. 1/14/20. THE CHURCH: A MISSION COMMUNITY, GATHERED AND SCATTERED. It helps us to remind ourselves, from time to time, that the church is, as the community of God’s new creation, a community that is called by Jesus Christ to … Continue reading →

BLOG. 1.10.20. CHRIST’S CHURCH IS ALWAYS COUNTER-CULTURAL Here, at the end of the week, given the chaos on the national and international scene, we need to be reminded that in whatever expression/community of the Christian we inhabit, … that the … Continue reading →

BLOG 1.7.20. ‘EVANGELICAL’: A PROTEST I want to add my voice to the protest against the conservative right wing on the political scene who have both hijacked and bastardized the venerable and adjectival designation ‘evangelical’ to give legitimacy to their … Continue reading →