Posted in 26709 on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Heather and I this weekend attended a play at Indianapolis’ Phoenix Theatre entitled End of Days. Here’s a description:
Sixteen-year-old Goth girl Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn’t changed out of his pajamas since September 12, 2001. Her mother has begun a close personal relationship with Jesus…who brews her coffee. Her new [...]
Posted in 26709 on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
SJR-7, the bill which would add to the Indiana constitution a ban on same-sex marriage, is being heard on the Senate floor at 8:45 a.m. this Thursday. Here’s a link to some news coverage of this bill which is so ill-conceived and poorly-worded that it would actually deny same-sex unmarried couples some important rights as [...]
Posted in 26709 on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
The following is a quote from the Universalist Clarence R. Skinner from his book A Religion for Greatness, written in 1945 and published by Universalist Publishing House.
“One fact persists through all our disillusioning and through all our attempts to make man naught but a miserable worm - a damned spot, to be erased, and forgotten. [...]
Posted in 26709 on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another children’s poem I wrote for the children’s focus last week. Hope it finds you well.
Welcome back to Rumano
Your friends were sad to see you go
Important things that you should know
Have happened since you’ve gone
Remember Joe who worships Sloan
Who sits in heaven on a giant throne
Running things all on his own?
Now Joe is a [...]
Posted in 26709 on January 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Friends, I hope you’ll check out this speech by Barack Obama. Whether you’re closest to evangelical or atheist on the religious spectrum, there’s something for you. Here’s a taste:
While I’ve already laid out some of the work that progressive leaders need to do, I want to talk a little bit about what conservative leaders need [...]
Posted in 26709 on January 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is the sermon I gave Sunday. It is not optimistic, though I do try to redeem it in the end. This is a true story. Too often, when our society argues the problem of evil and the existence of God, it’s argued in conceptual terms. I wanted to give it some context here. This [...]
Posted in 26709 on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
What follows is an expression of faith which I wrote for myself a little more than two years ago. These paragraphs no longer capture my worldview, but they will always be important to me. As has been true for many people (and for Universalism as a movement) my espousal of Christian Universalism was the end [...]
