God loves diversity and created us all to live together but when sin’s corruption screwed things up Darwin’s survival of the fittest ( i.e. the strongest, loudest, with the most physical stamina and least aversion to conflict, the one with the most power -however it...
I had shared this social media “meme” and an “after church” photo last year….. This year’s “after church” photo is posted below last year’s meme and photo. Today’s was taken at our home following a Youtube...
One poster in a daily devotional discussion group observed that having grown up in a particular faith tradition, she appreciated the ways in which it had developed her spiritually. “But I was never taught that there was any other kind of faith than...
Jesus’ life provides the template, the BEST example, of how we are to grow in six ways (Luke 2:52). Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy became the standard for understanding human development and setting institutional policies to support healthy populations after...
In a Facebook discussion there was conversation about “idolatry.” Such discussions always take me back to the ways in which God has dealt with it in my life. I had sought deacon ordination in The UMC starting in 2008 and was discontinued in 2017...
One meme on Facebook offered this: “Jesus sat down and ate with sinners, did he not? That doesn’t mean he supported what they did. But it also didn’t keep him from loving them.” I have been pondering the nature of godly love and what...
