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“This is the kind of fast day I’m after:       to break the chains of injustice,       get rid of exploitation in the workplace,       free the oppressed,       cancel debts. What I’m interested in seeing you do is:       sharing your food with the hungry,       inviting the homeless poor into your homes,       putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad,       being […]

Most of us can remember events in our lifetimes that were so profound in their effect on us that we’ll always remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when the events occurred. That day in 1963 when President Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died within hours of each other […]

Fearful and forgotten… We’ve heard those terms tossed around quite a bit in the weeks following Election Day. Fear and a sense of being forgotten each can manifest itself in pretty ugly ways at times, but when mixed together with a little frustration and impatience, well, it seems to me you’ve got a formula for […]

This election season has been one of frustration for most of us. As is their wont, the media have appropriated both the airwaves and cyberspace for the money-making opportunities they see in the race. Thus, we have been bombarded with articles, blogs, and editorials explaining how and why each of the main candidates for the […]

We will have much to be thankful for when Thanksgiving rolls around this year. Not that we don’t have plenty of reasons to be grateful already, but in this, the ugliest election year most of us have ever endured, we have been “blessed” with myriad more reasons than usual. First and foremost, we will be […]

I had a lot of different pastors during my first thirty years of life, and for the most part it wasn’t me who was doing the moving around. I suspect it was at least partly because the communities of faith of which I was a part at the time were some of the larger in […]

It’s campaign season, and with that realization also comes the realization that for a couple of months anyway, the hyperbole, the accusations and recriminations, the name-calling, and the apocalyptic warnings that seem more and more to be the norm in our body politic will reach epic levels. I can’t wait. Well, actually I can wait. […]

A couple of times when I was young, my family made a vacation out of traveling to and from General Assembly. The most memorable Assembly for me during those years was the 135th, held in San Francisco 51 years ago. For a naïve, twelve-year-old kid who had grown up in Memphis, a town that a […]

Well, here we are again. As I write this column, our nation—and in fact, much of the world—reels from the news out of Orlando, Florida. Fifty persons dead. More than fifty wounded. Hundreds, if not thousands of friends and family members suddenly left without relationships they had cherished. I suppose one might argue that there […]

A few days from now, several hundred representatives from various entities of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (CPC) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (CPCA) will descend on Nashville, TN. For the CPC, it will be the 186th such gathering, while it will be the 141st for the CPCA. Of no small significance is the […]