Learning from Pain
April 15, 2023 Today is wonderful. Since my knee operation nearly six weeks ago, I’ve had more discomfort and pain than not. It’s completely controlled my life; simply no time or energy to do what my ‘soul’ needed. Survival was good enough. Today was different. I was comfortable enough to sit in my ‘office’ chair […]
Easter Sunday Plus One – Why Ruin Easter?
April 16, 2023 I’m sitting out back, reading a good book and sipping on fortified coffee. (Bolivar coffee liqueur is the ‘additive’). I’m whistling, echoing a bird who’s above me, singing his/her heart out. Maybe in anger or fear, but it sounds like joy to me. Ain’t life wonderful? And, as far as we know, […]
Prayers for Good Earth Day
April 23, 2023 · Yesterday was Good Earth Day. As I’m writing this, hundreds of people are at worship here in Kingston. There won’t be many churches that won’t share in one form or another, a community prayer for our Earth. They’ll pray that God might somehow fix things. These are good people, truly wanting God, […]
Belief and Worship versus Discipleship
June 17, 2023 I noticed an advertisement for a theological college a while back showing a group of students, deeply emersed in worship. They varied in ages and races and in different states of religious ‘involvement’. Some had eyes opened, gazing skyward, others with bowed heads. Some with arms raised, others not. The picture could […]
A Difficult Truth
June 19, 2023 A Difficult Truth Across much of the world, the incidents of hatred against any who are sexually different has risen dramatically in the last few years. In Canada, it has risen by half in the last year. A horrific incident in a Pride parade in Europe was reported this morning, as an […]
I’m Afraid I’m Right. The ‘Sword’ is Here
June 25, 2023 It’s been two days and I’m just writing this down. There I was, on-top-of-the-world. I had just sent the text and cover ideas into ‘the guy’ that does my formatting and cover. My new book is Bread versus the Sword – The Fundamentalist Schism Within Christianity and How its Weaponization Threatens Our […]
2SLGBTQI+?
June 26, 2023 I know that it’s important for everyone to feel included. Me, too. But just who is represented in the above? When I saw the term seven times in an article in the paper last week, it still took me a while to figure it all out. And I’m sure that there are […]
We All Make a Difference
June 28, 2023 At noon I’m joining a demonstration at the city hall about climate change. Thinking about the predictable comments of some, mainly, “What can I do? One person can’t make a difference.” A thought hit me. Maybe I’m still a sailor at heart. (You can’t sail across the Atlantic in a 32’ sloop […]
The Sour Taste of Reality
June 29, 2023 Yesterday there was a Climate rally at the Kingston City Hall. Kingston was the first city in Canada to declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ some years ago, but has largely relied on that distinction ever since. The rally was to start at noon, in conjunction with thirty others across the country. I had […]
Modern Humanity’s Great Deficit
July 1, 2023 We think we’re so smart. Look at our A.I. and the buildings that we live in. All that information at our fingertips on the internet. All true. But look at how stupid we are when it comes to sexuality, the most basic aspect of our humanity. We couldn’t be more screwed up. […]
