Resistance Is Necessary

Saving What’s Important

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  • Fifty Shades of Red

    This is an opinion piece, rather than a Very Important Topic and I have a piece on caring for the homeless that I want to give air to in my…


  • What I Learned in 2014

    Overall, 2014 was the best year of my life so far. I love my work life, my home life, my friends, my religious life. Besides that, I’m bowling again. Work…


  • 2014 in review — Thank You To All Who Read

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800…


  • Sin Is The Problem — That’s the Cure? (for Julie)

    My friend Julie LaBarr asked me to write something Christmas-y and I had been hoping to write an upbeat piece for awhile, without leaving the world of troubling race issues…


  • Trouble in Ferguson City? I’m Shocked. Shocked I Am.

    I’m not sure there could be more bizarre news in America than the news that Lawrence O’Donnell reported the other night — that the Assistant District Attorney read the wrong…


  • Conflict Resolution and Ferguson — The Good News

    As a therapist, I can tell when a couple is doing well and when they are not. When both people act like jerks to each other and say, “We’re great”,…


  • Full Citizenship and The Realm of God (For Gerri and George and Ken)

    I dreamed last night about a T-Shirt/Bumper Sticker that said “Full Citizenship for African-Americans!”. I woke up this morning to my friend Cat Chapin-Bishop’s posting of a video where a…


  • A Reminder….

    This evening, the President of the United States said, via his press secretary, “The President is the father of two daughters. And like any American, he believes that domestic violence…


  • Another White Man For Justice…

    What a horrible week or two for the nation’s Black men. More horrible than the week before for Black men? I don’t know. Why? Generally it doesn’t get this far,…


  • I Remain Convinced…

    This week and last, my wife and I are chaplains at a Christian summer camp called CYC in Ocean Park, Maine. This is the fourth summer camp I have worked…


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