Monday morning I attended the first session of my collage class, taught by the wonderful artist Lora Jost. There were only three students, and at the end of the session, we each showed and explained the collages we had made. One of my fellow students, a 20-something guy, explained that the small man in his…
In a newspaper column printed on New Year’s day, 1863, Mark Twain wrote: “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. To-day, we are a…
The first Sunday of Advent this year, our worship service at Peace Mennonite focused on the issue of time–particularly the distinction between Chronos and Kairos. During December, Chronos, or chronological time, is emphasized in many ways. The secular world tells us how many shopping days we have until Christmas. At home, many of us use…
This would probably be a good time to say that the views expressed in this blog are my personal views. They do not necessarily reflect the perspective of my congregation or denomination. (To put it mildly.)
My Facebook (and real life) friend Joel Mathis recently alerted me to a troublesome article by Bryan Fischer in the online publication The Moral Liberal. (The views expressed in this publication are neither moral, nor liberal. Discuss.) This article is entitled “The Feminization of the Medal of Honor.” Fischer has noticed that we aren’t giving…
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