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A Memorial Service for HM1 David Graney and the End of a Long Week
This has been a busy week. It began with an unexpected emergency to baptize the grandchild of a dear friend injured in a terrible household accident. I drove from North Carolina on Sunday to Virginia Beach and returned Monday evening. … Continue reading
Filed under faith, Military, remembering friends, shipmates and veterans
Advent and Incarnation: Merry Christmas!
“It might be easy to run away to a monastery, away from the commercialization, the hectic hustle, the demanding family responsibilities of Christmas-time. Then we would have a holy Christmas. But we would forget the lesson of the Incarnation, of … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Religion
The Church Maintained in Love: Thoughts on Life a Year after Being Asked to Leave a Church
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right….” Martin Luther It has been a year since I was … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Religion
I Don’t Like Bullies: The Troubling Trend in Conservative Politics
I don’t like bullies. I didn’t like them as a child and I certainly don’t like them any better now. Unfortunately the bullying that I address is not the simple schoolyard type, but a kind that has infected our politics … Continue reading
Filed under faith, History, laws and legislation, leadership, Military, Politics, Religion
Will we Stand? The Moral Responsibility of Christians in our Time
Party and Church election campaign “Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Politics, Religion
A Few Concerns Regarding Matters of Faith and Morality
“The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking … Continue reading
Filed under faith, History, philosophy
Reaching the Lost Christian Generation
“God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.” Jürgen Moltmann Over the past couple of weeks I have been thinking about encounters that I have had with Christians of various denominations who have suffered a … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, Pastoral Care, PTSD, Religion
Silent Witnesses
“We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, faith, History, philosophy, Politics, Religion
Thoughts on Smoke, Suicides, Gracie Jane, the Media Legal System and I guess I’m not Patriotic
Gracie Jane…the Boston Legal Nancy Grace Today was one of those weird days. I got up relatively early for a day off only to have my morning interrupted by a page from the Emergency Room to deal with a suicide. … Continue reading
Filed under ER's and Trauma, faith, leadership, Lies of World Net Daily, Military, Pastoral Care, philosophy, Politics, PTSD, purely humorous
