Today, I’m out with a ten-year remembrance of the Obergefell Decision, legalizing Same Sex Marriage in America.
It was a big day for two members of our church, who were the first legally married couple in our County, and possibly…
Today, I’m out with a ten-year remembrance of the Obergefell Decision, legalizing Same Sex Marriage in America.
It was a big day for two members of our church, who were the first legally married couple in our County, and possibly…
“Is there a senior discount?”
It’s ten years ago, today. And I’m standing at one of the several pay stations in the Dallas County Clerk’s office where, among other things, the public can pay for a marriage license.
I’d guess…
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Sermon from Rev. Eric Folkerth
Kessler Park UMC
Dallas, TX
06.22.25
United Methodist Teaching, “On War and Military Service”
Read more"The church deplores war and all other forms of violent…
I realize that the entire Christian world is waking up this morning to say something about Pope Francis. And I’ll ask you to trust that I will indeed get to my grief over this death, and what it means to…
Read moreThree weeks into Trump 2.0, and I’m still haunted by JD Vance’s condescending smirk at the National Prayer Service.
He wasn’t he only one. The entire Trump team was smirking and squirming. But since, once upon a time, I was…
Read moreHere is my sermon from January 26, 2025 at Kessler Park UMC.
It weaves together the Gospel of Luke and the conflict between Bishop Mariann Budde and President Trump’s supporters.
A written essay that also speaks of these issues is…
Americans are involved in a debate over truth. After decades of the “alternative facts” of FOX News, Trump 1.0, and COVID-denialism, surely no one can deny this.
But there is a small subset of this debate very near and dear…
Read moreA new song of resistance, in honor of the Inauguration Day of Trump 2.0.
I wrote this song the day after RFK’s ridiculous McDonald’s plane ride with all the Trump Bros.
Tracked and released for you today.
CLICK HERE to…
Our KPUMC member, Andrew McGregor, has written a moving essay about our work with the homeless on subfreezing nights. It was almost a full page in yesterday’s print edition.
Andrew sums up beautifully the work we have been doing for…
“Been a Groundhog Day of a year
Equal parts of sadness and of fear
You hobble toward a cold and bitter end
And you worry what the coming days portend.”
Perhaps you’re feeling this today?
These lines —from my album’s…
Read more“In meditation we catch ourselves waging violence on parts of ourselves. This is the seedbed of War. All violence is the act of acting out our own violence toward our own heart.”
— Jim Finley
I’m doubling-up this week, to…
Read moreHOPE is a major theme of Advent, here in a cultural moment where perhaps it has never been in shorter supply. Last Sunday at Kessler Park, and in thousand of other Christian Churches, worshippers lit the first candle on the…
Read moreThe angels were holding a washcloth over my mouth, and I was struggling against them.
My arms and legs were thrashing.
I was suddenly afraid that I could not breathe.
I had awakened to find them basically on top of…
Read moreThis Zach Malm BlueSky post might strike some of you as an offensive appropriation of women’s actual pain right now.
But I there’s a deep theological/social point being made that is worth unpacking.
I don’t know Zach…but this little post…
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Save us, O God, from Doom Scrolling Anxiety.
Save us, O God, from Spin and Alternate Facts.
Save us, O God, from worshipping the gods of 24-hour news, political parties, or nationalistic leaders.
Save us, O God…
I am a straight White Man of a certain age. If not for thirty years of God’s grace, the forgiveness of friends, and a near constant repentance for my sins, I could be a Trump voter. Demographically, I’m certainly a…
Read moreFor some years now, I’ve been urging everyone to read Ezra Klein’s book “Why We’re Polarized.” It changed my life in that it gives a reader a “view of the forest” of the past 50 years…a way to describe what…
Read moreI posted about this incident Friday on Facebook. I’m going to provide some additional links below, because I would ask all Texans, all Americans, to mediate on what this all means. Somebody in San Marcos, Texas is posting threatening messages…
Read moreIf all goes according to plan, this will be my final writing before the 2024 election.
I find myself not only anxious about the election itself, but about what might be coming after.
So, instead of political election talk, I’d…