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Reflections on constrained preaching in a parish with many newcomers.

American evangelicals never doubted that Christianity was the truth.

Nidal Malik Hasan It’s always a pretty safe bet that anything Pete Hegseth does is performatively tough and morally indefensible.

That they all may be one - in the Truth.

What are we to make of the upcoming public, live-streamed execution of Nidal Hasan, propped up in his wheelchair?

Violence, enabling lies, activating lies, America's Got Web!

There's no room for racism in Orthodoxy.

I've been trying to move anti-Trump content off of this, my main blog, but today needed to be an exception.

"One very common narrative says that our materiality represents a type of fall from which our machines can liberate us.

It is not really possible for a Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Christian to separate belief in “mere Christianity” from membership in and submission to the ecclesial life of Rome or Constantinople ...

What's a guy gonna do if meritocracy produces results that are - ahem!

Mostly collected critical observations on how American Christianity got to where it currently is, which by and large is a pretty bleak place.

Isn’t it swell having a jackboot in the White House to protect Christians?

For the last twenty-nine years, I’ve been part of a church that some would describe politically as … heck, I don’t know.

I have nothing to add to what others have said about 9/11, but a few things to say anyway.

Boy, I collected some pretty good stuff over the last six days!

If you change all the trappings and the rules, shouldn't you admit that you've created something new?

Thirteen years ago today, I commemorated a 50th Anniversary on this blog, so now it’s 63 years.

I, like many, consider September 1 the start of Autumn.

I previously published this on January 23, 2014.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

The Amish are the truest geniuses of technology ....

Sorry for a bit of a hodge-podge today.

I start with the distasteful subject of the SPLC, the the equally distasteful subject of Pete Hegseth demanding $1.5 trillion for Trump's stupid Iran war.

It is very hard for a man to defend anything of which he is entirely convinced.