I got overwhelmed the other day by all the evil out there. Should I fear: Every one of them seems to want some of my peace-of-mind. It occurs to me that, if all those people exist in our society, our society must be pretty messed up, which leads me to the old-school concept of sin…

It started years ago, partly of our own devising, and partly due to the zeitgeist, the German word the means “spirit of the times”. No one knows how it gets here or how it comes on a nation, but everybody seems to believe it because “it’s so logical”. The zeitgeist was “Be greedy. Be for…

Today, in Washington, D.C. the impossible will happen. Unless something strange happens, Kamala Harris, who was there for the last insurrection, will certify the Electoral College votes for a man who didn’t like the way the Electoral College did its job last time. A felon will take his place in the orderly transition of power…

I just watched the vote for Speaker of the House and was amazed. The woman who spoke to nominate him gave an incredible Democratic speech about what Congress does. She said things like “help struggling families” and “rule of law” and most importantly, “get done the work of the American people”. The Speaker, post-election, said…

There is no particular reason I’m writing this. I just want to think about what the world should be like as we enter a new year and put it out there. People need to eat. They need to eat whether or not they work, whether or not they’re old enough to feed themselves, whether they…

Vladimir Putin decided to bomb Ukraine on Christmas. Volodymyr Zelensky said it was done intentionally. Palestinians have attacked Israel during Passover, or because Israel has attacked Islamic people during the Haj. In America, Black pastors I know have had worship services interrupted by police. What the #$&*, people?!! I know people and cultures are often…

I was reading Jeff Tiedrich’s Substack this morning. He was talking about the surprises that people are getting once they realize what That Guy is “really” like. A friend posted a list of the good things that That Guy promised to make happen yesterday to hold him accountable later. I’m going to take a sort…

I’m trying to understand how we got here. What underlying thing did we miss? In my lifetime, we have gone from a reasonable country that was aiming at equality for all (1960’s and 1970’s) to a coming Fascist state (since then , most especially since 2016). Mostly what I come up with is sin in…

Over the weekend, President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, after saying he wouldn’t do it for four years. People are going nuts. That’s at least some of the joy of being President — not caring what other people think, if you’re doing what you feel is the right thing. Biden felt like it was…

I’m listening to the #Sisters-in-Law podcast and they are talking about how the D.O.J. should have started their prosecution, based on what we now know. They also talked about the rules involved and the Supreme Court’s not changing or getting worse during this administration. In a past blog, I asked the question “When Does The…