Warped Perspective

I have a twisted relationship with the news media. I hate it. Absolutely hate it. Yet I cannot ignore it. If I go a couple of days without seeing the news, I get antsy. Watching the news is a cancer on my soul. Every night it is a concentrated dose of the worst evil that […]

More than meets the eye

I love driving from the Eisenhower tunnel, down through the Rocky Mountains and into Denver (my home town). As you go barreling down I-70, you round one mountain, just to see another, and another and another. And just when you think that you are forever trapped in this rocky landscape, you round a curve and […]

Git Off My Lawn

Yes, I am becoming that guy, the old man shaking his cane at the neighborhood kids for playing in his yard. It hit me yesterday when I reread my own posting. There is a core of white hot anger at my core that has to do with the way that organized religion #$@#%!! (made sweet […]

Gimme that Ole Time Religion?

There is an old song called “Give Me That Old Time Religion.” It goes as follows: Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, Give me that old-time religion, It’s good enough for me. Here is my question: To which religion does the writer refer? The religion where humanity was cursed for wanting […]

The Many Faces of One

For the past few months, my wife and I have been watching reruns of Star Trek Voyager on Netflix with my son. I make no apologies for trying to get him hooked on science fiction. I think science fiction teaches us a lot about what it means to be living in an ever changing world(s). […]

All is Relevant, None is True

The final hours of 2011 are ticking away. And my thoughts in these waning hours, as is often the case, revolve around faith. I guess the title of this entry pretty well sums up my recent train of thought. I have been pondering the words of John Lennon in the song Imagine and reading some […]

Moo Year

Let me say up front, that I do not make New Year’s resolutions. I think trying to change your behavior because of an arbitrary date is doomed to failure. Making little changes over time that is eminently doable. So in no particular order, here are some things I would like to improve upon (that is […]

Dressing for Success

My mother taught me a lesson that has become part of the core of who I am. It was a very short anecdote from the church she grew up in. Every Easter at Glad Tidings Assembly of God, the pastor’s wife wore and old and often out of style dress. Why? She did not want […]

I Can Do All Things (Phil four thirteen)

Go to church long enough and the same topics and scriptures are repeated. If they use the lectionary it is roughly every three years or so. At most churches it is somewhere between 3 and 5 years…except around Christmas and Easter, they are repeated annually. Rarely do you hear a good sermon about Jael driving […]

Thought Crimes

I went to a small Bible College with an enrollment of roughly 500. It was a conservative college right smack in the middle of Santa Cruz County. To say that our neighbors did not share our world view would be a gross understatement. We used to joke about ourselves saying that we lived in the […]