Resistance Is Necessary

Saving What’s Important

Category: ethics

  • Division and What To Do About It

    Have just turned 56 years old, I had kind of planned to stop trying to write The Big Piece That Will Change Everything. I thought I would try to influence…


  • “Craftspersonship” — for Michelle

    This morning, my wife went off on a rant  about supporters of Bernie Sanders who say they won’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she gets the party’s nomination/if Bernie doesn’t…


  • Kesha and “The Girl In The Book”

    My daughters often listen to music that I can’t imagine listening to, sometimes with lyrics I can’t imagine or don’t approve of, but — after sharing my distaste (and I…


  • Man’s Inhumanity To Man…

    7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship…


  • We Need to Reign In Deadly Force…

    There has been some interesting news lately regarding the rash of police shootings of citizens that plagued our country in 2015. In a study of Chicago police and a wider…


  • Guest Blogger — Rev. Todd Farnworth on Guns and Us

    Editor’s note: This is probably the third time I have had a guest blogger whose ideas I wanted to share. The first was Joe Roberts and Cathi Chapin-Bishop on saving…


  • “How To Figure Out Anything (About Ethics)”

    Editor’s note: Every once in awhile, I have a sermon that expresses an important (to me) theological point. This is one of those. The beginning piece is from the morning’s…


  • This S— Has Got To Stop. It Just Does.

    Today, more people died in a school massacre. I don’t need to publish the date, because — unless we do something NOW that first sentence will still be appropriate. Apparently,…


  • Reforming our Justice System: What It Should Look Like

    Yesterday, some sheriff said that “Sandra Bland” wasn’t a model person/prisoner. Instead of getting a trial, she got killed. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Sandra Bland or anyone else (unless,…


  • Who Are The Police Responsible To?

    “Jesus called them and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.  It will not be so…


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