Someone, anyone, please, take the high road. Our whole social structure is disintegrating as schism, division, separation, polarization, and enmity become the new normal. “Normal” shares a significant number of letters with “moral”, and we are quickly adopting a morality of hate, hostility, contempt, retribution, aggression, violence, and disdain. It […]
I am adding a fourth peace focus to peacemaking, peacebuilding, and peacekeeping – peacespeaking. I do this with a sense of bewilderment. People’s United Methodist Church adopted as its annual theme, “Blessed Are the Peacemakers (for they shall be called children of God).” I did not expect the response this […]
I love research. I love learning and the process of transforming data into usable, understandable, reasonable, and verifiable information that builds knowledge that is fair, just, rational, and useful that ages well and becomes accepted wisdom. I read footnotes. I look up original sources. I care deeply about verification, documentation, […]
With apologies to Tom Wolfe, there is a sad parallel of his societal commentary of the 1980s to the current deterioration of the Christian faith in the 2020s. It isn’t that there isn’t interest and passion in Christianity; it is that there are so many uneducated and ill-informed versions of […]
Why do some “certain people” not want other “certain people” to be loved, recognized, and respected for who they are? Why are some “certain people” so ready and willing to condemn other “certain people” of sin while ignoring their own? Why have some “certain people” worked so hard to deny […]
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