(Originally posted 02/10/14 .) Bookmarks: To get bail, money talks Polar bears aren’t all warm fuzzies. Private planes are nice, but...

The Trump administration’s alternative Christianity In recent weeks, I have become strongly motivated to become upwardly mobile. This...

In life, we need both.

Monday, May 8, 2017 Church member Joe Stocks died suddenly Saturday. Natural causes. Jesus said, “Let your light so shine before others,...

Psalm 37.25: “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” I see it all...

Proverbs 3:5-6: 5Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and...

In a recent post, I said, if Jesus did teach thus-and-so, he was wrong. That’s an extreme position for someone who calls himself a...

The real secret: There aren’t any. Christmas day, when I sat down in the shower line at the shelter where I stay, Comet was showing the...

For years, I’ve had a special sensitivity to reports of child abuse. This one may give you nightmares for the rest of your life. ...

Main points: (1) God always provides more than you need. (2) Use well what you’ve got now; only then will you get more. (3) What you abuse, you lose. (4) Absent a disease process, chronic poverty is not a natural condition.

“Worth his weight in gold.” A talent was an amount of money intended to correspond to a man’s weight in gold. Thus, a man who possessed...

Many people are skeptical about prayer. How many have prayed fervently, day and night, for an ailing loved one, and never obtained the desired outcome? The parable of the widow and the judge promises, “[W]ill not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them.” For African Americans, that deserves to be laughable. No one has ever lived, nor is ever likely to live, more e

Luke 18: ¹Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. 3In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ 4For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justic

My response to Sunday’s sermon — and another event, after church — surprised me, and seemed to affirm that self-love is indeed the...

(Below appears a tract I passed out with the Hallowe’en candy in 2007. “ Chaos overwhelms the poor ” describes that neighborhood. ...

(Originally posted 08/06/14. Reblogged 08/15/24.) Some weeks ago, I stood in line awaiting check-in at the shelter. This place charges $3 a night. I was holding my money in my hand, and someone playfully tugged at it. I snapped. I said, “You don’t value your life much, do you?” Minutes later, I explained this to someone else. I said, “Don’t take a man’s last dollar.” “Why not?” he asked. I said, ” ‘Cause that’s the one he’ll die for. That’s the one he’ll kill for.” Don’t tak

The whole hullaballoo about #microaggressions assumes that one can never heal from even the slightest insult. The same applies, frankly,...

A grassy lot inspires a vision of what can be when a community cares for itself. When I take the bus to church in the morning, I normally...

These words will scandalize some readers. Sometime in the future, I will no doubt discuss the same ideas in a more well-ordered way. But...

A new thread at Messiah Truth . This is most emphatically not Jewish teaching. I expect it correctly to be condemned as not-Jewish. I...