Losing My Mother
I got off the bus and slowly walked across the street on route to the hospital. It was a cold, dreary evening and snow was everywhere and my mother was dead.
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May 25, 2012
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Light Drives Out the Darkness
The extent seems boundless to which bigots and haters will go to wrap their hate up in the Bible, and make Christianity the medium for their message.
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May 24, 2012
A Grain of Salt in the Sahara
We’ve been torturing each other over religious doctrines and gods, skin colors and political opinions. Just think about it, we’ve even been killing each other over love!
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May 18, 2012
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The Scarlet Letters of the GMC
When asked how long the GMC has held a tenuous relationship with the larger Mennonite conference and ruling bodies, Pastor Amy laughed, “For over 325 years!” The GMC was removed as a conference member in 1997 and again in 2002 for full inclusion of sexual minorities, once for baptizing a gay man and then for ordaining a gay man.
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April 28, 2012
“My gay Christian cousin committed suicide”
Jesus knew from suffering. It’s a thing about Jesus not often enough appreciated or noted, how clearly and deeply sad he was. Not for nothing is he remembered to us as the man of sorrows.
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April 25, 2012
10 Steps to Winning Back Your Estranged Wife
If you’ve committed an offense against your wife so egregious that she’s more likely than not to leave you, do these things. (I wrote this for a friend whose wife had just left him. But of course these principles aren’t relationally gender-specific.) 1. Let her be. Respect her need to process…
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April 18, 2012
The Universe from Nothing?
Colossal explosions and transformation of matter are often entertainment, military, or terrorist ventures in our contemporary world. They mostly represent things of destruction. Creation is something else: basically the concept that matter comes from nothing or is explained by Creation narratives in holy books. For older fundamentalist generations, such…
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April 17, 2012
Accosted by a Christian
My wife Catherine and I used to study and practice Zen. One morning we were walking toward our car after a night spent sitting zazen at a Zen center with a dozen or so other would-be Buddhas. (Zazen is Zen meditation: you sit; you close your eyes; you try to disconnect from…
April 11, 2012
Magical Thinking Is Crazy!
J. B. S. Haldane once stated, ‘The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine.” Just because something is strange or outlandish doesn’t mean it can’t be true.
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April 10, 2012
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Love is ALL That Matters
Here's the real deal: it is time for people to start speaking up for love, to start speaking up against hate...in all forms. It's the only way we're going to change our culture. It's the only way we're going to start seeing the incidences of bullying, hatred, violence and intolerance towards LGBT teens or anybody perceived to be different.
April 4, 2012