The fault is in the culture, not ourselves: …the past decade’s revelations of sexually abusive clergy had many causes, not the least of which was a toxic ambient culture to which the Church and its ordained ministers proved all too vulnerable. Further: …what we find, if we look hard enough, is a changed understanding of […]
Are 25% really GLBT?
A new Gallup poll finds that many Americans vastly overestimate the number of GLBT individuals in the population. U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25% of Americans are gay or lesbian. More specifically, over half of Americans (52%) estimate that at least one in five Americans are gay or lesbian, including 35% who estimate that […]
Preach the gospel, not the text – 1
What’s a preacher to do? Preach the text? Or the gospel? Even Gerhard Forde said preaching is “doing the text” to believers.[1] But doesn’t that work better with some texts more than others? For example, when the lectionary has those “take up your cross” texts which presuppose that we can and must do something to […]
Memorial Day Prayer
Holy and mighty Lord, who has given us this land for our inheritance…. Read more here.
If a wafer falls on the floor, do I have to eat it?
“…I reserved them and saw to it they were consumed after the service. I think we got them all.” Yet, when “hosts, reserved from Sunday’s service,” turned out to be infested with weevils, Pastor Saltzman did not make any calls to the homebound “until a new order arrived.” He does not relate what was done with […]