Category: Community
Seeing church in Occupy Austin
Last evening I ventured to City Hall in Austin, TX where a mass of people gathered for the Occupy Austin General Assembly which is being held each night until the actual Occupation on Thursday, Octobe... Read More
Stopping Stinking-Thinking: “You Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!”
“I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” “I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” “I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” Two months ago I sat with a group of 40 South African teenage girls... Read More
Religion, Reality, and Responsibility
Candles glimmer on the table and challah passes from hand to hand, the loaf dwindles and smiles grow, as the year of 5771 fades away and the new year brightens in our midst. I look back on a year that... Read More
Asking the Right Questions: from the Keystone XL Hearings to an Occupied Wall Street
At the hearing, I sat and listened. Underneath the noise, all I heard was fear, pain and loss. From union workers, I heard a steady litany of suffering: we need jobs; we need homes; we need to feed ou... Read More
Sermon #1: Jerry Falwell and the Cure for Sectarianism
The following was adapted from a sermon delivered at the United Church of Christ Alabama-Tennessee Association’s Fall Meeting at Howard Community Church in Nashville, TN. Based (loosely) on 1 Co... Read More
Life Is Still Freakin’ Awesome, Y’all
I was just looking at this website of people who are the 99% of the American people, the ones hurting because of the wanton ways of the 1%. I am part of that 99%. I could make a list of my grievances,... Read More
A Way Forward through European Mosque Politics by Omar Kassab
We had learned English for quite a while already before our teacher pointed out the crucial differences between British English and American English. That was when “centre” became “center,” an... Read More
Unbelievers and Process Theology
As a general unbeliever in God, spirits, immortality, and the human soul, there is much I disagree with in process theology. What I can agree with in process theology is what they deny. I agree wi... Read More