We all know that feeling of talking to someone who’s not really listening to what we’re saying. They can hear us just fine, but they’re not listening: They’re distracted, they’re not taking it all in. They’re too wrapped up in their own thoughts to listen to ours. They’re nodding their head, but in that vaguely […]
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The beating of two transgender women on MARTA on May 20th was despicable and degrading. But sadly, it happens again and again because the transgender community is laughed at, scorned and made fun of. In my own community their needs are only dealt with as an afterthought. In the world we live in today there
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July 2012 was the last time I wrote. Did I go on vacation? Quit writing blogs? Run out of things to write about or say? No, No, and God knows No! Simply put, I just got tired of having to write about the crap the religious and political right keeps lying about. How many times
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Sometimes one of the toughest parts of the job of being a pastor and to be considered a community leader is offering counsel to the community when it is apparent there is a deep and sharp divide. Recently the LGBTQIA community was faced with a deep and sharp divide. February 4, 2012 a young gay
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Every year about this time I start having this debate in my head…do we really need “Gay Pride”? Do we really need to go all the trouble and expense of throwing what appears to be a weekend long party? Then something like this crosses my desk: A gay Tennessee couple was reportedly attacked — physically and verbally
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“I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” — Mahatma Gandhi Maybe it is because I am getting old and my ability to just blow things off takes more energy then I have or it may be because Mahatma Gandhi’s observation of Christianity is right on
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Our Country is 236 years old. Of those 236 years we have been in a war of one kind or another or some kind of military action for a total of 165 years and still counting. In case you think my count is off here is the history: War of Independence 1775-1783 Northwest Indian War
Our Collective Denial Read More »
For those who have watched the “Godfather” trilogy starring Al Pacino among many stars as Michael Corleone as the head of a powerful crime family will recognize the intensity of my quote to start this blog. Michael throughout the movies is portrayed as the good son, who is attempting to take the family business and
We have just gone through an awful couple of weeks. There was a mass shooting at a mall in the Chicago area and then at a University in Illinois another mass shooting. If that were not enough a 15 year old boy was shot in the head and killed by a 14 year old boy
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Today we remember and are still deeply saddened by the events in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, which took place 6 years ago. Yes we have changed. 6 years later, we still swing between tears of grief and deep waves of anger not to mention a certain amount of fear of further attacks. Yes we