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This is the end of Sunday’s sermon. You can find the whole thing: text, MP3 and Slides in either recent sermons or the sermon archive. The passage was whether it is right to pay taxes to Caesar, and I have related it to the very different question of paying taxes in our time. What if . . . → Read More: Tax Cuts Over the next weeks and months we can expect to hear a lot about what just went down in Washington during the debt ceiling debate. Joe Nocera, of the New York Times, offers a compelling opinion worth reading. His main points: We’ve got a deal on the debt ceiling, all right. One that will reduce . . . → Read More: Tea Party’s War on America In order to make prayer requests somewhat easier to submit and also more secure, you will now find the prayer request page in the ‘For Members’ section. This section is visible if you are a registered member of the website. You may register from the “login etc.’ box. Simply fill out the form, and your . . . → Read More: Prayer Requests I think it’s time we burned the Bible. Fred Phelps uses the Bible to say that God hates fags and that the U.S war casualties are God’s revenge for our country’s permissive culture. The Rev. Terry Jones in Gainesville, FL plans to burn the Quran because. He says that the God of the Bible tells . . . → Read More: Let’s Burn the Bible! James Carroll introduces his book, Constantine’s Sword, by telling the story of a large cross that was placed next Auschwitz. The cross had been used in 1979 for John Paul II’s return home to nearby Krakow, and its move to Auschwitz in 1998 fulfilled his expressed hope that a place of prayer and penance could . . . → Read More: The Cross at Auschwitz; a Mosque at Ground Zero Has politics become religion? For some it seems it has. Otherwise it’s hard to explain the call for “separation” between the president of the United States and America’s school children. In the wake of the president’s plan to address the nation’s schools some have reacted very strongly suggesting that the president is forcing children to . . . → Read More: Has Politics Become Religion? Like many of you, I suspect, I have found myself today mourning the loss of Ted Kennedy and reflecting on his era of political service. Like most of us, Ted Kennedy was flawed, and some of those flaws were glaring and costly to him or others. But today as I read and watched accounts of . . . → Read More: Ted Kennedy and the Politics of Principles It is with sadness, disappointment and outrage that I read and listened to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s recent comments to a reporter from the Virginia newspaper, the Daily Press. Wright, the former pastor of Trinity UCC Church in Chicago and President Obama’s pastor until Wright’s incendiary comments during the presidential campaign caused Obama to break . . . → Read More: Jeremiah Wright and anti-Semitism This letter to the congregation was handed out at church on April 26th and is posted here in advance of its appearance in the newsletter. Dear Friends, We live in sobering times. While that’s true on many fronts, today I’m thinking especially about the current financial situation. No family or organization is immune to the . . . → Read More: Tough Times In this post I want to continue thinking about study Bibles. In the last post I concentrated on translations, looking at the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), the New Living Translation (NLT), and the English Standard Version (ESV). This time, I want to focus a little more on the content of the study materials. . . . → Read More: Study Bibles Redux |
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