Posts for : July 2021

A Plague on Both Your Houses

  Five years ago, I wrote the following message to the Church. Although I have often felt the weight of God’s word in me, and sometimes physically groan under it, there have been few times I’ve felt as heavily burdened by it as I was with this one. Carrying a…

The Progressive Christian and the Thornbush

November 3, 2020   “Listen to me, brothers and sisters, so that God may listen to you.  One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.’ “But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by…