Category Archives: For Anyone who dares

In the first hearings addressing the repealing of “Don’t ask; Don’t tell,” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said it was a matter of integrity to let gays and lesbians openly serve in the military.  … Continue reading →

Where Angels Fear to Tread is the title of a 1905 novel my E.M. Forster, but it comes from a line from an Alexander Pope poem from 1707 entitled “An Essay on Criticism.”  Pope’s line is more apropos of this … Continue reading →

I was going to preach this for Thanksgiving but courage didn’t hang with conviction as is often the case with me.

A Lutheran woman once told me she grew up thinking the chorus to Creedence Clearwater Revival 1969 hit “Bad Moon Rising” wasn’t “There’s a bad moon on the rise,” but “There’s a bathroom on the right.”  I use to think … Continue reading →

  I have never been in favor of the category “Professional Church Worker.”

   The Summer 2009 issue of Higher Things has an article entitled “What’s With the Collar?”  It makes some fine points favoring the wearing of a clerical collar which I do six days a week, but I am being pushed … Continue reading →

  “The more genuine and deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us” Life … Continue reading →

Kakistocracy is “government by the worst men in the state: opposed to aristocracy” (Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 995).  I believe in an earlier blog I made mention of this and how I perceived it to be true of all … Continue reading →