A 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.
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A 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…
There are many —like the small group of Dallas anti-death penalty activists I am honored to be part of— who believe Robert Roberson is innocent.
It likely won’t matter.
There are dozens of attorneys who have defended him up and…
In the run up the Iraq War, I had a conversation with my Mother that comes back to me now, in the era of Donald Trump. I was deeply opposed to the war, and unconvinced that there was moral justification…
Read moreJust look at how beautiful this is.
This is my city.
This is the core, where I live, where I work, and where you’ll find me most of the time.
For the uninitiated, the foreground lights…
Read moreI want to talk about two remarkable clergywomen, and two changes to our church-law that affects both them, and all of us…in a good way. Telling these stories is, in a tangible way, how to describe the changes afoot in…
Read moreIf you want to leave moralizing comments about the many flaws of Pete Rose, don’t bother.
Rose was my first genuine hero.
Rose was my first genuine fallen hero.
If you don’t have both in your life, or live long…
Read moreTwo hundred and seventy years ago this very week, an eighteen-year-old German immigrant stepped off a ship at the Port of Philadelphia.
His birth name, best we can tell, was “Christoffel Volkhardt.” (Or something like it…).
He was my…
Read moreI’m back today to remind you about my favorite political datapoint and what it says about America. I bet it’s one you’re at least vaguely aware of. But I’d also bet it’s one you often forget about in the heat…
Read moreThis week, I think God sent us all a little reminder about our scripture lesson from last Sunday through an encounter we had here at church, with a houseless neighbor.
I hesitated a bit to write this, because to write…
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