Category Archives: In the News

Admonition–Be Compassionate

The unavoidable reality of what happened to those Coptic Christians on that beach last Sunday keeps running around my head in a loop these days. Many are asking, including me, what would it take to generate a response in this … Continue reading

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Pesky Personal Pronouns

The Ohio State University ‘Buckeyes’ football team won a national collegiate championship game last Monday night. Officials certified that the Buckeyes managed to accumulate more points than their opponents, thus securing that team’s right to exuberantly boast, “We won!” That … Continue reading

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Believe It or Not

As most of you already know, I don’t generally engage in adding more comments to those that are already pouring out about whatever hot-button issue might currently be flooding the airwaves. If virtually every other human being with a keyboard … Continue reading

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The Bulls are Loose Again

Welcome to early January, 2015. This is always a special time in our calendar year, a time that brings different things to celebrate—like our very own personal renovation. It’s the time when we witness an unleashing of a restless, pawing … Continue reading

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Drill, Baby, Drill?

Irony and paradox fill our news sources this Thanksgiving week. Our TVs, computer screens, newspapers, and many of our personal conversations are consumed with elements of it. In Ferguson, MO, individual violence and anarchy have begotten mass violence and anarchy, … Continue reading

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Your Voice?

Next Tuesday, November 4, is Election Day.  It is a time when our voice is heard in a unique and significant way, yet some tend to think that their voice doesn’t matter.  Maybe we would do well to consider the … Continue reading

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