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I read the results of a research project a couple of years ago which said that todays members of congress are no more or less civil with one another than at any other time in our country’s history.  I will take the research at its word.  But what makes it seem worse is that what [...]

The government of Uganda is proposing new, barbaric laws that would impact homosexuals, their families and friends.  The legislation calls for up to life imprison for those known to have engaged in homosexual acts.  Persons who know homosexuals and do not turn them in to the authorities can serve three years in prison.  The proposed law originally [...]

A health care reform bill has passed the House, and the Senate has voted to debate the issue on the floor.  Two issues within the proposed reforms seem to be receiving more attention than all of the others; namely, immigration and abortion.  As of this writing, abortion has eclipsed immigration in the public spotlight because [...]

The rhetoric is heating up among not only the politicians, but the military as well, on our Afghanistan strategy.  The military leadership is very publicly calling for more troops.  When is it the military does not call for more firepower and personnel?  The Republican leadership is siding with the military, while the Obama administration seems [...]

I, like millions of others watched President Obama give his health care speech on Wednesday September 9.  I am generally a supporter of the president and think he is a marvelous public speaker, as he was on that occassion.  However, I do agree with some of his Republican critics that he did not have to be [...]

Late last week the Justice Dept. of Scotland released the person convicted of blowing up PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland and killing 270 people.  The reason given for the release was that the Scottish legal system incorporates into its essence a sense of compassion and mercy.  Compassion and mercy were called for, according to the Dept. of [...]

In the aftermath of James Von Brunn entering the National Holocaust Museum and killing an African American guard I have been thinking of how Christians ought to respond.  The motive for the killing was hate.  Von Brunn hates blacks and Jews, and I suppose he hates me because I am a white man who does [...]

On Monday May 11 our treasurer and senior warden knocked on my door, entered, and closed the door behind them.  They told me that our pledged income was lagging behind so badly that we would have a difficult time paying bills and making payroll in the coming weeks.  It fell on me to make a [...]

Over the past several days I have been asked my opinion of the controversy swirling around The Rev Thew Forrester, bishop-elect of N. Michigan.  I will take this opportunity to weigh in.  The first thing I heard about Forrester was that he was not suitable for the position of bishop in the Episcopal Church because [...]

On Holy Saturday my wife and I expanded our very small garden by digging up more grass and shaking the dirt out of it.  It was a bit of a job.  The plot, which is only about 9′ x 4′, slopes pretty sharply downhill so we leveled it some by adding dirt, placing landscaping timbers in [...]