Resistance Is Necessary

Saving What’s Important

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  • The Foundation of Justice: Fairness and “Equal Justice Under The Law”

    This one has bothered me for awhile and it gets back to the very foundation of democracy. We have at least two systems of justice in this country. Until about…


  • Be Gordon For Someone Else

    June 21, 2022 –One of the joys of writing is being able to re-print things that I’ve written. Today would have been Gordon Sherman’s 85th birthday. This is for him,…


  • No Better Place To Be …Ministers March on D.C. 

    There was a time when Protestant Christianity was considered to be a popular force for good, rather than a popular force for oppression. There was a time when the American…


  • It’s Not Really About Trump … It’s About Us … and Jesus

    In listening to the President last night, and praying later about it, I keep struggling to see anything good, then I feel bad for even trying to. Then I feel…


  • Opening Remarks After Charlottesville To Be Given Tomorrow at a Connecticut Church

    Editor’s note: this is the real opening of my sermon tomorrow, August 13, 2017 at the church where I work. I hope it brings a little hope to your part…


  • When Did Life Become So Cheap?

    “Superman: Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks? By planning the death of millions of innocent people?Lex Luthor: No. By causing the death of millions of…


  • Gordon Sherman, RIP

    There’s a reason that news outlets archive footage of famous people — because when they pass on, no one will have the right words or any sort of a brain…


  • In Praise Of A Free and Honest Press…

    I’m listening to a Rachel Maddow podcast, as I now do every morning. Now I sort of follow it up with a Morning Joe podcast, and/or a CBS This Morning…


  • The Other Beautiful America

    I have always loved what America has the ideals to be.  As my friend Jen apparently knows as a history teacher, those ideals can be found somewhere between the Magna…


  • I See Dead People — Why Don’t They?

    I’ve been watching the news for a while now, and it doesn’t look good. For whatever reasons, we have elected people that want to kill us. The President wants to…


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