Resistance Is Necessary

Saving What’s Important

Category: Do Your Own Theology

  • The Hidden Reason I Love The UCC — It’s Us

    My friend Evelyn Eddy posted a reminder on Facebook the other day that about three tears to the day before I was born, something great happened. My denomination came into…


  • A Bridge Over “Power”

    Last night, I was reading The Nation (THE best magazine ever, in my opinion — I come back to it all the time) and I came across an article on…


  • What If … Just Sayin’

                                          “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” — Leviticus 19:18 (Hebrew scripture) “So in everything, do to others what you would have…


  • Good Things Are Happening, Too.

    I’m scrolling through Facebook tonight and my good friend Mark has posted a sonogram of a fetus inside the womb of the woman he loves (Anna) and joy breaks out…


  • Jerry, I Hardly Met You

    The adults in my house have come to the conclusion that 2013 has too many deaths in it already. Our housemate has done 6 funerals in the last month or…


  • The Last Bigotry?

    In today’s Huffington Post, there’s an article about a speech by Bill Clinton with this quote: The country has made tremendous progress in shedding various forms of bigotry, Clinton said.…


  • Defiantly Hopeful

    As a spiritual practice, I decided I would read the lectionary for something to meditate. (I have the lectionary app on my iPod already, so it was kind of a…


  • If You Cheat, No One Wins…

    “Your Cheatin’ Heart Will Tell On You” — Hank Williams As the election draws to a close, the parties are already hedging their bets with claims of voter intimidation, voter…


  • In Praise of the Local Church Pastor

    About two weeks ago now, my friend Todd, a UCC pastor in Massachusetts posted something on his Facebook page about “having a conversation with the father of creation spirituality…” I…


  • Different Questions — Faith and Politics

    Especially for Murph and Marilyn and Bob and Carrol… [This is a sermon I gave at Plantsville Congregational Church, UCC, Plantsville, CT   July 27, 2012. I am particularly proud of…


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