Resistance Is Necessary

Saving What’s Important

Category: Good Things and Good People

  • 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…


  • 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,…


  • Reminders from “Selma”

    It has been a long time since I was at seminary and a long time since I had a congregation to lead, which required spiritual time and Bible study, so…


  • “Career Creators” vs. “Job Creators” — Education and “Reform” (for Dawn)

    I have wanted to write something for my friend Dawn, who is a teacher outside of Boston, for awhile. She posted on Facebook that some new ruling/department decision was making…


  • It’s A Good Year For Thinking

    We have a chance like we haven’t had in years. All of these things cause us to think, to challenge what we know about others, because we have come to…


  • 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…


  • Rebekah Anderson — Woman/Girl Extraordinaire

    It’s been an interesting week in birthday land, and I had already planned to write this post, but it turns out there’s more to this story even today, and there…


  • 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…


  • People In Your Neighborhood — Patti

    One of the joys of belonging to a church is that you meet people you wouldn’t normally get to meet. While Sunday morning is still one of the most racially…


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