Author: modernstoriesoftheway

Reflections on the Year of our Lord 2022  Bill Wilson, M.D. The Year of our Lord 2022 in my mind and heart is a jumble of many concerns: In the United States of America, most significant is the recommendation for criminal prosecution of the former President Donald Trump on charges of insurrection for his orchestrating [...]

“The Tainted Witness of the Church” September 18, 2022 Since allying itself with the former president and presumably 2024 presidential candidate, the conservative evangelical church has compromised its witness and core Christian values, having allied itself in a Faustian compromise to achieve its own political ends.  Jesus reminds us of such a temptation to expediency, [...]

“By Their Fruit” August 21, 2022 Jesus has an interesting statement:  “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  You shall know them by their fruits.  Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  Even so, every good tree bringeth fruit, but a corrupt [...]

“Not to Be Served” August 4, 2022 In response to an argument among the disciples of Jesus as to who was the greatest among them, Jesus said these words:                 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  [...]

“The Saga of the Dead Chicken” Have you ever found a dead chicken in the road?  Even in the country, on rural South Carolina roads, rarely, if ever, does one encounter a dead chicken.  It is common to see dead dogs, dead feral hogs, dead possums, and dead skunks, but rarely a dead chicken. This [...]

When Did Clarence Thomas Become White? July 4, 2022 Watching the blizzard of bizarre Supreme Court rulings this past week, particularly the gutting of the ability of the EPA to address climate change and the upholding of the restriction to the Voting Rights in Arizona implies a movement backward, dreamed about by the Koch brothers, [...]

Roe v Wade June 24, 2022 The angst regarding the striking down of the right to an abortion (as a right to privacy) under the United States constitution represents for the USA (no longer united, but fractured into two nations of divergent beliefs and philosophies), represents the downfall of the liberal democratic tradition which has [...]

Make America Racist Again (Based on Opinion Article by Arick Wierson and Bradly Honon, “GOP Culture wars force its decades-long marriage to Big Business to end in divorce”, NBC News , Politics and Policy, May 12, 2022) “It was the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln-that even passed laws that granted protections for Black Americans [...]

April 15, 2022 Good Friday, Easter Week, in the year of our Lord 2022. “Dilemma and Despair” Reading the Passion Story of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ last evening (from Matthew 26-28), I am struck by the poignancy of the passion of Christ set in juxtaposition to the horrible suffering in Ukraine.  There are [...]

“Naked Aggression” February 27, 2022 In the last few days, all around the world we have witnessed Putin’s naked aggression against the democratic Republic of Ukraine and its people.  43, 303,109 human beings (as of February 22,2022)  are being assaulted and slaughtered without remorse by the conscripted army of Putin’s Russia.  Putin is apparently obsessed [...]