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So Much Pain
As if there were not enough to worry about with coronavirus, elections, the economy in the tank – now this. NASA warns us that an asteroid is approaching Earth the day before Election Day, November 2nd. All the more reason to vote early. Remember… Continue Reading “So Much Pain”
Stop, Look, Listen
When I was a young boy our family would take trips from Compton into Los Angeles. Driving up Alameda Blvd., as we neared the downtown area the railroad tracks for all the industrial spurs would enter the street and run right up the center… Continue Reading “Stop, Look, Listen”
Do Not Conform – Be transformed
On Sunday morning I woke up with a racing heart and a sense of dread. I had just come back to consciousness from a terrible dream – a nightmare, really. In this dream I was seated in my vestments ready to take the pulpit… Continue Reading “Do Not Conform – Be transformed”
The Cool Kids’ Table
We moved to a new neighborhood when I was in my second year of high school. Now, I must confess that pretty much all through junior high and into my first year of high school, school was a social disaster. And an academic disaster. … Continue Reading “The Cool Kids’ Table”
Demon Seed and Alien DNA
As July rolls into August, high seas and ferocious winds threaten to swamp the Ship of State. Huge surges of new waves of coronavirus inundate hospital emergency rooms. This week one of our own at St. Francis has been hospitalized with COVID-19 (she is… Continue Reading “Demon Seed and Alien DNA”
“With Sighs Too Deep for Words – Seeds of Hope”
I must be doing something wrong. But I am perplexed as to what it could be. This spring, as last spring, I went to my garden and scattered some seeds. Sweet Alyssum, Nasturtium, California Poppy. And what came up? Nothing. Just like last year. … Continue Reading ““With Sighs Too Deep for Words – Seeds of Hope””
“As in Travail”
The congregation was dumbstruck that Sunday morning as Jai and I stood before the altar during the time of announcements to announce that we were expecting. Yes, Abraham and Sarah, in our old age, expecting our first. I still remember one of the congregation… Continue Reading ““As in Travail””
We’re Coming to America
Some will remember that “Hot August Night” when Neil Diamond stepped out onto the stage. The orchestra began with a winsome prelude that slowly crescendoed to a pulsing beat. Then began the first strains of that ballad that so aptly celebrates the promise of… Continue Reading “We’re Coming to America”
If This Stuff was Easy…
My first parish assignment at a little town in the upper Mojave Dessert. There I met a number of wonderful, faithful Christians. Yes, the town was little. My wife would have said infinitesimal. When we first arrived to be interviewed, in all of about… Continue Reading “If This Stuff was Easy…”
Inducted
Over fifty years ago I distinctly remember being lined up with a bunch of other guys in a dingy, depressing room, downtown L.A., and raising my right hand and swearing to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. We then stepped across… Continue Reading “Inducted”
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