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Woke Christian Women

WOKE CHRISTIAN WOMEN

As I follow the political and cultural news in America, I become increasingly distressed over the weaponization and misappropriation of the word “woke.” I know that there are radical groups on the left that claim this word as their own and use it to reflect their unique experiences, biases and agenda, and then there are other groups on the political right that interpret this word through their own experiences, biases and ahenda. It reminds me of the debate decades ago...

Fear of the Lord

THE FEAR OF THE LORD

We have all experienced fear of some sort at some point in our life.  Maybe as a toddler we were briefly separated from our parent while at the market?  Or, we were unprepared for an exam years later in school.  We also feel fear when we break the rules in society for which there are consequences.  Perhaps we felt fear while walking down a dark street or through a car park to our vehicle?  I once felt fear around the age of ten when I...

Götterdämmerung

The Ragnarök is an ancient story that describes the cataclysmic overthrow and death of those legendary Norse gods such as Thor, Loki, Freyr, Odin, and others in Norse mythology. According to the Ragnarök, the sun in those days lost its light and even the stars in the sky disappeared. People lived their lives in this unhappy gloom as if they were characters in a Lord Byron poem. At an appointed time, says the Ragnarök, powerful demons and giants were summoned...

IN THIS LIFE. . .

In 416 B.C., Athens and Sparta were at war. Caught in the middle of these two powerful belligerents was Melos, a small island in the Aegean Sea which tried desparately to maintain its neutrality. Though many Melians were related to the people of Sparta, Melos was careful not to give Athens a reason to harm them. The Melosian men talked each day among themselves of the weather, of sports and wine, perhaps just the common aches and pains of growing...

a niente: When you feel like you can't go on.

A NIENTE

I was watching highlights of the Beijing Olympic figure skating competition last evening and my thoughts went to Condoleezza Rice, a personal hero of mine who might have made the U.S. Olympic figure skating team herself years ago. One little known fact about her is the origin of her first name (Condoleezza) which is a musical term defined as “to play sweetly with feeling.” And if being an awesome athlete isn’t enough, she was also a concert pianist, who at...

ARE YOU TEMPTING GOD?

Almost everyday now, I read in the news or in a tweet about someone seriously ill with, or who has just died from, COVID. The stories are strikingly similar in many cases: “…man of faith…chose not to get vaccine…sorry now that he did not…moved to a ventillator…wife and children left behind…Please pray…” Some of these unfortunate people were politicians or candidates, others were media personalities, some were pastors or political activists, but most were just ordinary people who in many...