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In this morning's New York Times there is an article that strikes me as summing up all that is wrong in our priorities...when people ask...

I don't hate Mother's Day. I think the celebration of mom is good and important. So good and important it shouldn't really be ...

With snow breaking down doors in upstate New York, and all 50 states seeing the below-freezing mark at the same time, and the ridiculous chi...

I'm sure I've blogged about this before, but it bears repeating again and again and again and again: PLEASE, for the love of God a...

There's lots of chatter this week about Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, which just voted to leave the PCUSA and go to ECO . The vote was...

I hesitate to write this, for several reasons. Among them: I do not want to be perceived as writing only about the congregation of which I a...

Yesterday at church we got a call from a young man who was looking for a place he could do 10 hours of community service. Before Thursday. ...

There is a distressing language epidemic going on in American English right now. I don't know if it happens in other languages, or in o...

That's right, I have so much to say I'm being merciful to my four readers and splitting into two posts. Words matter. A lot. The w...

Over the past several months, I have witnessed or been a part of a large number of conversations in which people, often Baby Boomers, lame...

One of the things we (theoretically) learn in the process of growing up is the difference between reacting  and responding . Many of us don...

In the USA, it's Tax Day--the day when millions of people who waited until the last minute panic about all the forms and whether they ha...

I can't go anywhere without seeing a car with one of these magnets on the bumper: They started appearing about a year ago, and it...

I really hope we see the problem here.... It's no secret that I love church. It's also no secret that sometimes I hate church....

I use the word "friends" a lot. I think it's because I'm secretly a Quaker in my inward heart. (that's right, I secr...

There seems to be an epidemic of women, especially women with a platform, declining to be feminists. They use their platforms--whether it...

We are in the middle of the very first week of Advent--the four weeks of waiting and preparation that lead up to the celebration of Christ...

When I'm doing things around the house (cleaning the kitchen, cooking dinner, lounging on the couch) I often listen to podcasts. I wil...

Dear politicians, Since you seem to have forgotten, let me remind you of your job. Your job is not to ensure that someone of the other p...

One of the great things the church has to offer the world, in my opinion, is a place to participate in making music. There are no longer ver...