The gospel isn’t yours anymore You don’t get to mandate how it is shared The pleas from the disadvantaged, the downtrodden, the despised; warned you, but you rejected their counsel You have participated in the great mockery of the faith, letting go of your previous convictions — While the grifter…
I was so wrong to think and behave that way. It took this year and this season in my life, for me to realize I was indifferent to racism, yet I assumed I was adequately sympathetic and thoughtful. I am deeply regretful and so sorry for my insensitivity in walking out of the film. Yes, others did as well, but I can only speak for myself. I can assume some of the filmmakers and others in attendance were bothered by such a display of displeasure. I didn’t realize I was being cowardly and insensitive, while exercising my right to reject the remainder of the screening.
It’s late and I can’t sleep — another week in mid-2020, so it’s the ideal time to write about how I feel about the state of the world in this little blog I’ve called Deliver Us From Bad Theology. I put these words together early last year, while in deep…
Deciding to write a piece that mentions the word abortion about 20x has taken me through the gamut of deep breath-taking, some hand shaking and the willingness to expose my limits of expertise; while praying for discernment and courage, with levels of trepidation. It is likely the most polarizing issue in the…
Last night, I was looking at some of my old writings I’d kept deeply hidden in cloud files (assuming ‘clouds’ are private). Sometimes only a paragraph. Sometimes a full page. Sometimes I wrote and stopped in mid-sentence …. I can’t remember all those moments, per se, but I have memories…
As Mother’s Day 2020 rolls on, I find myself itching to get out complicated expressions — some I don’t know how to properly articulate. So, here is my attempt to speak what is in my heart, through these words. So many wonderful memories of our mothers, our children; mothers we…
As a kid in school, I didn’t take much interest in science courses. There were the standards: Biology, Chemistry and Physics, with some curriculum on the fundamentals of Geology, Archaeology and Sociology. I wish I‘d realized back then how extremely cool science is and that getting good grades would have…
In many ways, I am still inside my shell — afraid to be exposed to the harsh-world elements, before it’s time to pop out of the safety of my hardened exterior. At least that’s what I thought before reading today about the typical life of an oyster …“In order to…
Today, I woke up feeling drained and low on optimism — day #41 (I think, but I really try not to count) since a typical day, pre-“staying home” orders. Staring at those words for a few moments …. well, how to top that statement? I’ve basically started this Wednesday morning in…
