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Amazing Quote
290. Amazing Quote Forty-five years ago on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. In those years I have heard the speeches he made, one of them just a few hours before his death. I have listened over and over to his…
Stand Up
289. Stand Up Remember toward the end of the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, when the jury has found Tom Robinson guilty. And Atticus, Tom’s lawyer and Scout’s father, is leaving the courtroom. All the blacks (the book says Negroes) were getting to their…
Check the Teasing
288. Check the Teasing It seems appropriate on the day after April Fool’s Day to check out whether teasing is funny or not. I would say that the teasing stories yesterday were funny and did no harm. But when I was little, my father…
First Day of April
287. First Day of April My first thought on getting up, even on a spring morning in 1973, was to get a cup of coffee. In those years I was not a morning person. My eight-year-old daughter Dara, youngest of four, was a thousand…
Jesus Christ Is Risen!
286. Jesus Christ Is Risen In 1997 I was a lay pastor in an American Baptist Church in Nyack, NY. It was the day before Easter and I met Mr. Ted Dobek at 9am at the church so he could look at the two…
Five-Year-Old Wisdom
285. Five-Year-Old Wisdom Lily is five and one night she had chosen one of her favorite books for bedtime reading, a set of books entitled “Theology for Tiny Tots.” These books, written for very young children, focus on such themes as “names for God”…
Good Friday Question
284. Good Friday Question — Were You There? — Were you there when they crucified my Lord? — Soldiers were there—they called him King and said “Hail King of the Jews” Soldiers were there. They played games at the foot of the cross. I…
Thoughts on the Death Penalty
283. Thoughts on the Death Penalty I have strong feelings against the death penalty. I have read extensively about it. I was on a task force to abolish the death penalty in the United Methodist Church in the Greater New Jersey Conference. For the…
Does God Intervene
282. Does God Intervene I’ll say at the very beginning that I am not satisfied or pleased with this days’ writing. It’s a hard question, and there is no easy answer, but I can’t avoid all the hard questions. Does God intervene? I believe…
The Footwashing
281. The Footwashing Remember the time when Jesus insisted on washing the feet of the disciples? A woman who was speaking at a conference asked me to write a song to go with this story of the footwashing. I believe it’s not about everyone…
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