Category Archives: For Anyone who dares
Horsemanship
Now there’s a word you don’t hear every day. I don’t know why it’s not horsewomanship since it seems to me that women are fonder of horses and better with them than men are. But then again the “Horse whisper” … Continue reading
It’s a matter of Stupidity
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
Even Angels Should Fear to Tread Where God Has
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
Thanksgiving: Not just for Turkeys anymore
I was going to preach this for Thanksgiving but courage didn’t hang with conviction as is often the case with me.
Food for Thought
A cereal named Ezekiel 4:9 has just shown up on my grocers shelf, and even for a town that prides itself in keeping things weird, this is weird. Here’s what the package says, “As described in Holy Scriptures ‘Take also … Continue reading
There’s a Bathroom on the Right
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
Don’t Try this at Home
I have never been in favor of the category “Professional Church Worker.”
Dressing to Confess
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
Effeminacy and the Liturgy
Reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I discovered I might not know the real meaning of effeminacy. It doesn’t mean weak or even sissified to the author of that work.
Acting for God
“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