{The dreadful motivation for this sermon comes from a newsletter I received saying “Church leaders in Jesus’s birthplace decided to cancel Christmas festivities this year. Reverend Munther Isaac, who leads a church in Bethlehem in the West Bank, said:...
Shared a meme six years ago that said My cat is very handsome and soft. My cat is best cat. Your cat is also best cat. All cats are best cats and that is science. Thank you. My comment? I’m using this the next time I hear an argument about the merits of...
A teacher friend of mine lamented that so many in her profession basically gave up their lives for their profession. Not this their vocation is unworthy of their effort and sacrifice, but that in retirement they discover that they have not much of a life to enjoy....
{I was on deck a couple of years ago to fill in as the speaker at a Masonic Interfaith breakfast, and although the speaker didn’t show, they called off the sermon and invocation altogether. This unused passage is compiled from the notes intended for use that...
A central belief in Christianity is the incarnation of deity as a human being. This is more than “God within us”, which is easy to accept. It is easy because anything we don’t like we can say is not part of that, and what we do like we claim to...
{Written for 10th Anniversary of 9-11} It is no random chance that people in all cultures have memorials. It is the human condition that what we remember what we cherish, and what we cherish, we remember. It is those memories that become the foundation of a society...