Hello Darkness My Old Friend
News broke last week of another school shooting. The list of these news reports grows longer and longer. My friend Ken Tanner, who is a pastor in Michigan, describes...
What’s a Substack?
Over lunch today a friend described a loss of trust. That is, it was once taken for granted that neighbors would look out for each other. For this friend...
Healthcare, Theology and Ethics: A Conversation with Dr. Kevin Driver
“Is healthcare a right or privilege?” Maybe the question needs a better frame. Recently I was talking with my friend Marty about healthcare, high deductibles, and treatment costs. Amidst...
It’s Quite Dusty in Here
July. That is the last time an RSS feed crawler discovered new content, posts or podcasts, around here. Some plugins needed updating. I am in talks with my advisor...
When I Had More Hair
Like circa 1994. Last week the Memories feature of Facebook alerted my mother to a photo of me, Patty, Kimberly, and Tommie from 1994. One of the first things...
Common Places: A Conversation with Brad Mason
I tried to work in one of my favorite lines from Cold Mountain into the title. I imagine God is weary of being called down on both sides of...
Can Two Walk Together? More with Bradly Mason on CRT
Near the end of our last conversation on the subject of Critical Race Theory, Bradly Mason remarked that race is a social construct for the subordination of other human...
When the Law Does Not Deliver: A Conversation with Bradly Mason
In our best Schwarzenegger voice, “We said we’d be back!” Sojourner’s interviewed Nathan Cartagena on teaching Critical Race Theory to Evangelicals. When asked about the different assumptions students have...
Lines Left on the Cutting Floor
A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a press conference in support of Public Education in Oklahoma representing Pastors for Oklahoma Kids. Our Executive Director was not sure...
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Riding the Bull?
My friend C.B. Scott has a way with metaphors. He chose a bull riding analogy to describe what it is like to submit a Resolution to the Southern Baptist...