Coattail Justice
My early morning running buddy and I, both of us committed Democrats, have an ongoing dialogue about Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate: she is adamant that Hillary is the […]
Keep Calm and Carry on with Hope
A little over a month ago a man named Thomas Eric Duncan was getting ready to leave Liberia for Dallas, Texas. Prior to departing he helped a neighbor get a […]
Revelation in Davidson
a response to the this news story It was late, when she turned onto Caldwell, wondering if the kids were in bed yet, if her husband had remembered to […]
Breaking Bread with Bashar
Lately I’ve felt a little paralyzed in my preaching. All of the news out of Egypt and Syria has, for some reason, left me feeling rather empty and powerless when […]
Majority rules
The day the Supreme Court declared Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional in its failure to offer all people equal protection under the law, I […]
Death and Resurrection
It has been just over two weeks since we all heard the terrible news of explosions in Boston. In a timeline that seems too familiar these days, a few panicked […]
God Hates Whom, Exactly?
We’ve all seen it. We’ve all groaned, or objected full-throatedly, or taken to our blogs to protest. Pat Robertson did it in 2005, the Rabbinical Alliance of America did it […]
On SCOTUS, PPACA, and Other Acronyms
I was wearing a hospital gown and trying to ignore the stirrups I would soon be placing my feet into when I found out about the Supreme Court’s health care […]
Naming and Removing Barriers to Sabbath Keeping
My good friend Patrick is currently living in England because of his wife’s work. Patrick has a Master’s Degree and had spent a number of years here in the US […]
It’s Just Math
“This is not class warfare—it’s math.” On September 19th, President Obama proposed a deficit reduction plan that would be paid for by tax hikes for families making $250,000 or more […]
