We are a society that loves “solutions.” The word combines America’s can-do spirit of self-reliance and its capitalist impulse to sell things. And so “solutions” has become a marketing buzzword, a sudden synonym for “products.” The Solutions Catalog offers “products that make life easier.” Better
Speech delivered at the Oklahoma University Peace Rally on November 14, 2004 As some of you know, I am minister of Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City, and Open and Affirming, Peace and Justice church in northwest Oklahoma City, and professor of Rhetoric at Oklahoma
Because of a deep and growing concern about an emerging “theology of war” in the White House, the increasingly frequent language of “righteous empire,” and official claims of “divine appointment” for a nation and president in the “war” on terrorism, I have joined with several
A year ago this past March my partner of 10 years passed on. The time since has been a real rollercoaster ride. Some folks told me that it would be perfectly natural to be angry with him, with God, with the world in general. But
I wrote this letter to a gay man who e-mailed me and asked me to recommend books that would help him in his struggle to reconcile a personal relationship with God after growing up in a church that vigorously condemned homosexuality. Dear friend, I do
Against my better judgment, I allowed myself to be lured into a conversation concerning the bible by an 80 year old black woman who wore a rhinestone studded church hat the size of Delaware. As she engaged me in conversation, her helmet for Jesus began
Once again the Vatican has astounded me by its obsession with the gay community throughout the world. Pope John Paul II has once again issued yet another call for war against a gentle and peace loving people by accusing the community of “an aggressive attempt
Fractured faith leads to fractured lives and to schizophrenic personalities and splintered existence. Our culture today is dividing and conquering millions of individuals simply by fracturing every value and every truth that we hold to be self evident. All people are increasingly not seen to
What is the ultimate goal, the goal beyond all others? Is it money to buy pleasures galore or saving for things unknown? Is it marriage and a perfect family, to show on Christmas cards? Is it business and work to climb the corporate ladder? Is
16 And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” 17 And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you