This right here…
This is what I’ve been saying for 30 years.
No, I’m not kidding.
I’ve reminded folks that we mainlines have always tracked more “moderate to progressive” than evangelical churches or many others.
(Be sure and throw in…
There’s a floorboard creak in the threshold to our bedroom I am thinking about today. It’s one, very specific, floorboard; and it’s one, very specific, “creak.”
This creak sounds —for both Dennise and me— every time our feet cross the…
Read moreTrump has used drug interdiction to justify any number of bogus and…ahem… trumped up stuff.
— The border wall.
— The currently massive number of ice detentions of innocent persons who have no law enforcement “encounters,” much less “criminal records.”…
There isn’t now…now has there been for a long time…a “right way” for migrants to move through our immigration system.
Those who support Trump’s harmful and racist immigration crackdowns continue to tell me: “They just need to do it…
Read moreWith so much genuine trauma and horror happening in our world, it feels almost wrong to celebrate. But we United Methodists ARE celebrating amongst ourselves, this afternoon.
We are celebrating the passage of four needed “Constitutional Amendments” that complete our…
Read more“Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses…”
The saints most definitely swirled about me on All Saints Day. And on Halloween too. And on Sunday. Frankly all weekend.
First, on All Saints Day itself, I went…
Read moreI haven’t posted an update to our weekly clergy vigils at the Dallas ICE Field Office for a few weeks. For context, a group of clergy called “CLEAR DFW” has held weekly vigil there since the first Monday in May.
…
Read moreThe only enemy is enemy-making.
I’m back again with more “war propaganda” produced by our current-day United States government.
Except: There is no war.
The United States is not at war.
The United States is not being invaded.
The culture…
Dear Regretful Trump Voters,
I keep hearing there are more of you, all the time. I have no idea if that’s true, but I do keep hearing this.
I hear old White grandmothers, calling into TV shows, saying they’ll never…
Read moreHere’s a few bits of coverage from #nokingsdallas
I’ll add additional links as I find them in the next few days…
My speech. I was pleased to have a beautiful interfaith group of clergy stand with me. We represent a…
“Free My Hands” is THE song that inspired a journey of discovery that eventually led by my new album: “Unfinished Business.”
This song, and the tracks featuring Rachel Bissex on vocals, were what drove me to look for an archive…
Read moreI am sitting in a pew, inside “Mission Espada” Church, at the very end of the San Antonio River Trail, and I am weeping uncontrollably. The salt of my tears is mingling with salt of my sweat; and my entire…
Read moreThanks to my dear friend, and “The Good God” Podcast, for inviting me in for a timely conversation about our faith and the issue of immigration.
I hope it’s helpful for everyone to be reminded that some of us as…
I’d invite you to make the connection between these two pictures. Because, if you can see it, then you can understand more of my own motivations and calling as a pastor; and, I would be willing to bet (even though…
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Today, Eric updates everyone on our CLEAR Vigils at ICE-Dallas.
He talks…
One song I’m most excited for you to hear on this new album is “Find A Home.”
It’s a retelling of the first actual “human” encounter I ever had with a homeless person.
It was 1983-4, and I would take…
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