Modern Stories of the Way

‘Hear ye, hear ye!’ Trump’s Impeachment Trial Begins January 16, 2020 These words are designed to ring out across the entire Senate, even now ringing out across all this great land---a time of testing for us, to see what kind of metal we are made of.  This trial is a judgment upon our President, but [...]

“The Birth of a New Baby” Our first grandchild was born today, Ella Louise or “Lou” on 12/28/19 at 12:57PM. She was 8 lbs., 9.9ounces, and 20.5 inches long.  It is a stellar day.  There is nothing I can compare to this, “Lou’s birth” and for son David and Christy, mother, a safe delivery.  The [...]

“Reinvesting in the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord” Sitting in church for worship yesterday, the Lord Jesus spoke to my heart and reminded me that even if Donald Trump is removed as president, this will not solve the evils we face in our day.  With or without this President, the same powers which elected [...]

“A Christmas Meditation - Good vs Evil" With two of our three children at home and my wife willing to go to see the new Star Wars Movie, “The Rise of Skywalker” (Lucas Films-Disney), all four of use made our way tonight to see the last of the Star Wars trilogies.  It was a strangely [...]

“Living in Hope” A long holiday break over Thanksgiving gives time for reflection and hope.  Since I don’t do shopping except online and at the local hardware store, I avoid a lot of angst every holiday season.  The best holiday shopping I ever did was giving my credit card to my daughter, who did all [...]

November 15-16, 2019 “The Power of the Office” Marie Yovanovitch’s riveting testimony was interrupted one hour into the proceedings by a Presidential tweet in which the President questioned the career diplomat’s competence, noted the President of Ukraine did not like her and pointed out his power to fire diplomats at will.  Defending his attempt to [...]

“Our Climate Changing” One of “the hottest topics” of our day is climate change.  It involves all of us, since all of us live on this one planet called Earth.  Not everyone acknowledges the concern that many, even most of us feel for the future of all of us. Time Magazine in its Special Climate [...]

“Strange Times” The assault on our democracy is unprecedented, since perhaps the time of Joe McCarthy.  Our divided government accomplishes very little, being consumed by the fires of partisan politics.  Our democratic process is broken and even a presidential impeachment may not be enough to fix it.  What is going on in our democracy? It [...]

“Sins of Commission, Sins of Omission” October 10, 2019 In reflection upon our President’s behavior in the past few weeks, I thought it might be helpful to organize his behavior around the Book of Common Worship’s rubric of “sins of omission, sins of commission.”  In this prayer book of the Presbyterian Church, we are given [...]

“…for good men to do nothing” “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”                                                                                           Edmond Burke This well known, but often forgotten statement sums up the measure of our times.  Evil is triumphing around us, among us and sometimes in us, and good men and women [...]