Just when you thought the world couldn’t possibly become more vacuous, Kendall Jenner announced that she is cool with her breasts and doesn’t see the need to wear a bra. Isn’t that a relief? The reincarnation of Adolf Hitler is the Republican nominee for President, but it’s going to be fine now that we know…
Better yet, leave right now. Play hooky. Do something you want to do, right now, and then commit to do something else you want to do tomorrow. Repeat as needed. Have you ever noticed the amazing number of people who die relatively young, before their time, of serious illness rather than as the result of…
There seems to be some confusion that I would like to clear up. The job of an ordained deacon, priest, bishop, and lay person is to follow Jesus. Jesus never said “don’t cuss.” Jesus hung out with fishermen. Fishermen cuss. Jesus did teach people to be nonviolent, to protect the oppressed, to lift up the…
I am not the first to point out that, since the announcement of Prince’s untimely death, the usual feeding frenzy has been underway. Part cult of celebrity, part denial of death, it seems that when any high-profile person dies much before having reached their eightieth birthday the public becomes obsessed with discovering some behavioral flaw…
It seems to me that one of the consequences of the decline of institutional religion in America – and it’s also a cause of that decline, by the way – is that we have created a spiritual care vacuum. Mind you, I’m not talking about religious education. I am talking about spiritual care. To look…
Believe it or not, there are people running around in this country who love to question the validity of ministries, most often in the independent Catholic and Anglican world, not on the basis of the ministry they do but rather by trying to pick apart the so-called “validity” of their ordination, the ritual used, or…
In response to the terrorist attacks in Brussels yesterday, Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said he would increase police patrols in “Muslim neighborhoods” to stop radicalization. Confronted this morning on CBS news with the truth that there aren’t Muslim neighborhoods in America and forced to admit that he doesn’t even know how many Muslim people live in…
