April 19, 2006
R.I.P. – William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
“Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our
country …
We Christians are now in the midst of Holy Week, the
most solemn season of the liturgical year. This
sacred time still exercises compelling power since
church attendance …
When we hear the name of America’s 46th state, many
images fill our minds. “Oklahoma” was the first of
Rogers and Hammerstein’s ten Broadway musicals,
putting the name …
In this series, to which I am returning periodically
through the year, I seek to draw our attention to the
person of Jesus before the creeds were formed …
On Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006, a group of people
will begin in Phoenix a 2500 mile, 141 day,
5,000,000-step walk across America. Their destination
is Washington, D.C., where a public celebration …
The Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey will
sometime in the next few months hand down its ruling
in the case of Lewis v. Harris. The final …
When religious leaders are heard speaking in the
public arena in the United States today, the
overwhelming probability is that they will be
conservative evangelical or conservative Roman
Catholic …
In the first column in this series (published on
February 15, 2006), I sought to establish the fact
that the memory of Jesus, including his words,
parables and actions were recalled …
“Thou shalt not bear false witness” That is the ninth
commandment in the famous group of ten that are so
frequently invoked by members of that Republican
political …
Most Christians seem to assume that the details of
their faith system dropped out of heaven in a fully
developed form. Nothing could be further from the
truth. The …