Monday, May 30, 2022

Have the Fundamentalists Won?

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  Most preachers would be pleased if one of their sermons was remembered for 100 days. But Harry Emerson Fosdick preached a sermon 100 years...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Will the U.S. Remain a Democracy?

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Benjamin Franklin , a four-hour documentary directed and produced by Ken Burns, first aired on PBS early last month. This blog was inspired ...
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Friday, May 20, 2022

The Meaning and Importance of Lament

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Recently I have been attending biweekly online prayer meetings planned and led by David Nelson, a local friend who is a retired ELCA ministe...
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Monday, May 16, 2022

What about Book Banning?

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Vital Conversations is a monthly discussion group for people in the Northland of Kansas City, and since February 2007 I have enjoyed being a...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Tasting the Grapes of Wrath

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Last week I finished reading John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) again—decades after my previous reading of that powe...
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Thursday, May 5, 2022

What about the Immigrants?

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Immigration has long been a perplexing problem in this country. Tomorrow is the 140 th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first ...
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Saturday, April 30, 2022

How Will You Observe May Day?

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The title of this post may seem rather senseless to most of you, for in all likelihood you have no plans to observe May Day at all. But ther...
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