It’s Cinco de Mayo and so, like every stereotypical White person in America, I am thinking about Tex Mex.
Maybe I’ll go get some at one of my favorite places…
Maybe we’ll head over to “Acapulquena.”
Oh RIGHT…they CLOSED…
Well…
Read moreIt’s Cinco de Mayo and so, like every stereotypical White person in America, I am thinking about Tex Mex.
Maybe I’ll go get some at one of my favorite places…
Maybe we’ll head over to “Acapulquena.”
Oh RIGHT…they CLOSED…
Well…
Read moreDear Gov Abbott, I am writing you as a Christian pastor, and calling out your inclusion of the phrase “illegal immigrant” in your tweet regarding the senseless murders of five innocent people in Cleveland, Texas.
I would remind you how…
Read moreI’ve read the “Road to Emmaus” passage from the Gospel of Luke for decades, but I’ve never really unpacked this phrase:
“Jesus himself approached and began traveling with them. But their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.”
LUKE 24: 15-16
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Read moreEveryone needs to hear this leaked video. It reveals several things about America, all at once. It highlights our polarized and racialized politics…
Read moreNEW LEAKED AUDIO: TN House Republicans infighting over #TennesseeThree votes.
CEPICKY: “You gotta do what’s right even…
I’m unlikely to regularly attend “Drag Brunch,” because it’s just not my thing.
But I know this: The Jesus who is my Savior would totally go to a drag show long before he would picket one.
He might not do…
Read moreI’m simultaneously deeply annoyed and deeply saddened by the vast number of Bot-led catfishing proposals I get these days via social media.
It started out as just annoyance. And then, as a way of dealing with that annoyance, I decided…
Read moreIt’s now Monday, and to my amazement, my hastily dashed-off post “Good Friday” —about the original meaning of the crucifixion in Jesus’ time— continues to be shared at a stunning pace.
It’s now approaching 3,000 Facebook shares, and…
“Um…so what’s that interesting necklace you’re wearing?”
I am at the Kerrville Folk Festival, on a sweaty May afternoon. I’m with a group of fellow musicians, and one has again asked me a question I’ve been asked many times before…
Read moreIs it possible to have differing, but equally valid, moral and ethical positions on the film “The Whale?”
I sure hope so. I could be about to test this in what follows.
Whatever your views on the film, on food…
Read moreToday is Texas Independence Day.
As a student at UT Austin, I remember celebrating this day with all the pride I could muster.
Today, years later, I’m thinking about what I didn’t know then, what I do know now, and…
Earlier this week, I shared about Ash Wednesday, a year ago…some time I spent by the Roberts Forest fire pit, praying, crying, playing guitar.
What I didn’t say then was that a song, in honor of my Mom, poured…
Read moreA year ago Ash Wednesday…
It is about this time of night(1) I have not come home from church, but instead I am sitting alone in Roberts Forest at KPUMC. The fire pit is dying down. (This is an actual…
Read moreWhether or not you are a Christian, if you’re looking for the kind of human I believe best exemplifies my Christian faith, look no further than Jimmy Carter. If you are increasingly convinced there is no such this as a…
Read moreIt’s likely that mainline United Methodists are only vaguely aware of the “revival” happening at United Methodist-adjacent Asbury College. But it’s an event that evangelicals across denominational lines can’t stop talking about, and so I’ll jump in a bit today.
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Read moreAs I watched Rihanna perform her remarkable Halftime show yesterday —pregnant and suspended alone in mid air— my thoughts immediately went to both the new HULU 1619 Documentary, and also a sobering study reported on by the New York…
Read moreCongressional Republicans:
Decades ago, Joe Biden told you he was a fighter from Scranton.
If you paid attention at all, you knew this.
McCarthy warned you not to heckle, but you did anyway; and “Sleepy Joe” Jedi mind-tricked you into…
Read moreCody McMahan died Saturday. I had the privilege of knowing Cody for perhaps 15-20 years….I believe I’ve lost count.
I believe I first met him when Cody was still a member of Greenland Hills UMC. He later joined Northaven, and…
Read moreKessler Park Friends:
It’s been some time since I’ve updated you on the ongoing “split” in the United Methodist Church. I’ve been trying very hard not to “over-share” the play-by-play of almost daily developments, because it seems to me this…
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